英语美文阅读教材试着接受这个世界你将觉得更加快乐.ppt

英语美文阅读教材：试着接受这个世界你将觉得更加快乐 When we see something we dont like, we wish it could be different — we cry out for something better. That may be human nature, or perhaps its something thats ingrained in our culture. The root of the unhappiness isnt necessarily that we want things to be different, however: its that we decided we didn’t like it in the first place. Weve judged it as bad, rather than saying, Its not bad or good, it just is. An example: In my recent post, A Beautiful Method to Find Peace of Mind, quite a few commenters thought my outlook was negative, pessimistic, or fatalistic … because I said you should expect people to mess up, expect things to go differently than you planned, and that you should embrace that. “There is nothing either good or bad,but thinking makes it so.”—William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my “/index61.asp” experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are. Without judgment, without wishing for otherwise. Itll save you a lot of grief, because youll no longer say, Oh, I wish things didnt suck! Does it mean you can never change things? Not at all. But change things not because you cant accept things as they are, but because you enjoy the process of change, of learning and growing. Can we make this world a better place? Again, thats assuming that its a bad place right now. But instead, you could say the world is just what it is — and thats neither good nor bad. You can say that youll continue to try to do things to help others, to grow as a person, to make a difference in this world — not because youre such a bad person now, or the world sucks, but because thats the path you choose to take, because you enjoy that path. As you catch yourself judging, and wishing for different and we “/index62.asp” all do it try a different approach: accept, and understand. It might lead to some interesting results. Its too negative to expect things to go wrong, they said. However: its o