Whenever you smile battery gets charged

Always remember that your life is only yours. The choices and decisions are to be made only by you. Someone might help you but you only have to decide what's better for your life and what not. Whenever you take a decision it should be taken by understanding the positive and negative impacts in future. Whenever you would make a correct choice you would be appreciated but if sometimes things don't go according to you, you don't need to be upset.

You might also get blamed for whatever has gone wrong but that's what call life, where you would have ups and downs. Whatever you would do whether good or bad you would be the only one responsible for it. So think wisely and choose your decisions accordingly. It also means that you are not reliant on other people to provide basic support for you. You can provide food, shelter, and basic services for yourself. Typically, this is through some form of work that you perform.

And it also means that you take responsibility for your own emotions and behavior. Mostly, you develop the ability to keep going in the face of adversity/problems and you don't give up, until you decide you can have gone as far as you can go. You don't blame your failures and problems on others. It means to look head on at the facts and figures, define a goal you want to achieve, and then taking conscious and continuous action towards it with full commitment and self-responsibility, making it work, no matter what. Not for the faint hearted and hence something, a lot of people try to avoid.

Everyone has challenges that they face and everyone goes through adversity. Some happen to be worse than others, but inevitably where you want to go in life is 100% up to you. It doesn’t matter if you come from a poor family, an abusive family, or neglectful family. It doesn’t matter if you suffered from any kind of trauma or if everyone around you tells you your dreams are stupid and you wont go anywhere in life. Whatever’s going on in your life that happens to be negative, it’s your choice to listen; to hold on to that negativity. That happens to be what I believe the biggest variable into peoples lack of success.

And before I say anything else I’d like to make it clear that you define what success is. If success to you means to be a millionaire than that’s what it is. If success to you means to have kids and a pet dog, than that’s what it is. Success is in the eyes of the beholder. The biggest problem in our society is that we let other people and society dictate what success is. So to bring it back to negativity, you choose to hold onto that. If your parents, teachers, or friends told you you’ll never be successful and now you’re working in some cubical like a fucking caged animal. That’s your fault you’re in there and it’s your fault you didn’t follow your dreams.

As I say this, our lives are generally ruled by our brains and bodies. If something happens to either one, we realize how little control we really have over things. I think for the most part, people think they are in control of their brains at least, but having experienced psychosis, I can tell you that your biological being is really in charge. Flip a few neurotransmitters in a different direction, or slightly alter the cascade of things flowing through your brain, and suddenly you’ll find yourself thinking you are in another dimension. People suffering from Alzheimer’s (in the early stages) could probably tell you that they have little control over their thoughts anymore.

Moreover, even if you don’t have schizophrenia like me, if you develop any other kind of mental or physical disorder in your life (most likely you will), you’ll realize how little control we really have over everything. Then there is the macroscopic world around us. We are basically reacting to our outside environment. From political-economic situations, to weather disasters, we really aren’t in control. We are more a product of our time, place, circumstance, genetics, and biology than anything else. Cheers!