Do not let the world change your smile

A great monk once said:- “When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change my nation, I started focusing on my town. Along the way as age took its toll on me, I realized I couldn’t change my town and I started focusing on my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only one I can change is myself, and I suddenly realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.” People who change themselves change the world.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Simply put, your attitude towards life influences: Your results. If you go through life with a mostly positive attitude, you will see the opportunities instead of the obstacles and you will enjoy life, rather than chasing happiness. The key is to be happy independently of outside factors, meaning your happiness if not a condition of something i.e. I will be happy if I get that job/partner/house/money etc… but rather a state of mind you choose.

Look at other people. By being in an overall happy state of mind, you can literally save a person’s day. Just remember when you had an average/bad day, and a random person on your commute smiles at you, and you suddenly felt empowered. This kind of happiness is like a baton you pass on to multiple people, and that spreads like a happiness virus. If the majority of people were to act like that, we would all be happy all day long.

In short you should adopt an attitude of not letting the obstacles get in your way, but rather seize the opportunities they present, and by spreading that kind of happiness mindset, you empower others to do the same. If you are more interested in that kind of philosophy, Stoicism might be the way for you. Here is one of the pioneers of stoicism, Ryan Holiday : Daily Stoic Your perspective determines your reality.

It means let your positive attitude and your beautiful soul effect a change to people all around you. But do not let bad influence from people around you affect your positive attitude. You must be the one to affect people of your positive character. Or teach people to learn to be good and you must not be the one to be taught of their bad attitude. A good soul cannot easily affect people around, but a bad influence is easily accepted. People are smoothly magnetized to bad deeds, that is the truth about it. So be firm. Do not let the world change your good character.

Smile is a positive and happy gesture. And most people in world are stressed and unhappy. Their actions shall not take away the smile or inner peace of yours. Instead your inner peace and smile shall be powerful and contagious enough for them to feel the positive and happy change. Are the kinds that wake up in the morning, smiles on their face. They’re just a kid in a huge world of non-kids. They’re observational. They pay attention. They think about what they’re doing.

They think about what others are doing. They examine rules. They experiment and find clever ways to get around them. They’re the kind of people who wake up in the morning, and speak these words. To their parents, to their friends, to their loved ones, to themselves. “I have a dream.” Because to change the world, the only things you need, are dreams. Anyone can change the world if they put their mind to it and work for it. But only some have the will to do so.

Changing the world can be for the good, or for the bad. And some people, have their dreams derailed. Adolf Hitler wished to be an artist. His pursuit was crushed when he failed multiple entry tests. Instead of changing the world with his art. But sadly he changed the world by being the catalyst of the biggest conflict to ever strike the face of the earth. Not even those who wish to do bad, are excluded from changing the world. But to change the world, you simply need a dream, and the will to work for that dream. All people, change the world. Cheers!