You may grade things,
As what is out, & what is in,
But your words cannot reach there,
To bring out the beauty deep within!
This materialistic world, where we are living today, which we call a beautiful place, is beautiful only when we are positive in our outlook. For when the beauty of your heart dies, nothing remains the same! When your words fall short to praise the morning dewdrop, the flowers never seem fresh as new. When your eyes cannot capture the twinkling of the stars, the sky never looks divine! When your songs fail to instill the tune in the winds, the leaves never sing again with you!
What is being accentuated here, is the courage and ability to praise everything around you, if you restrict your praise and approbation, the worlds around you would not remain beautiful anymore.
We see people, who praise only that thing which is a bit extraordinary or something that is liked by everyone else. Why don’t we like the thing that has been rejected because of one or more flaws? Why do we want everything to be perfect when we are not perfect ourselves? Why do we look for superficial beauty everywhere? Why don’t we compromise on a mediocre thing?
The problem is that we are too prompt and quick to pass judgments, which too mostly point out negativity. If we are too quick in passing comments, why don’t we talk about the good points so often? We are always citing the things that are disliked, the areas where we can criticize, but we will never look at the other side of the coin!
We show this attitude only because we are always making a vain effort to keep our so-called dignity and conceit by liking the things that are praised by everyone else, and disliking the others only because everyone else does so! This is ridiculous! We don’t even try to understand the fact that, though there are good as well as bad bits of everything, what we only need is positive thinking and a habit to bring out the best in even the worst of things!
A very simple rule oversees all this… And that is “Be hearty in your approbation, and lavish in your praise!”
But sadly, we don’t possess such qualities, we praise so parsimoniously as if we would lose some kind of property if we’ll let out a few words of admiration! It is pitiful! But the case is utterly different when we start pointing out flaws or shortcomings! Why? Only because we keep an eye which devalues the bright and good aspects, and magnifies the bad ones!
The thing is that we want everything picture perfect, but my point is that we should be great enough to get the best out of everything. Even if there are a lot of drawbacks, still, there must be an area which is pre-eminent! Because no matter how bad a thing may be, it always carries a tinge of beauty somewhere! But you only have to have an eye for it!
Why? Why do we behave so insanely? Why don’t we look at the bright side of the picture? Instead of bringing out imperfections in everything, why don’t we bring out the best in everything? Why don’t we keep a heart great enough to ignore the bad aspect, even if there are so many of them, still, there must be at least one sole fine point! Why don’t we focus on that one? Only because we are always feeding our vanity by behaving like this, we never confer a thought upon how callous it is.
It matters not how disgraced by the people,
Or how many flaws words may bring out,
I can find beauty…
In even the worst thing!
Along with this, I had the urge to make you people ask yourselves for once, how do you grade things? Being realistic, or materialistic? I stress on only one point, that everything has its good and bad points, but, try not to talk about the bad points, try to restrict your words only to the world of positivity! And believe in one thing, when you like something, it means, you like yourself, and when you dislike something, that means, well you know what I mean! I am sure none of you dislike yourselves so love others and love yourself!
