'Guinea Pig' Mindset

"Eh, guinea pig may not always be bad leh. If medicine is good, guinea pig become very strong!"

I overheard my team leader say this over the phone this evening. He was exclaiming about this to someone (not sure who he / she is), but I found it so funny that I was laughing and laughing to myself all the way to the lift, to go home after a tiring day of work.

To a certain extent, this unintended joke did make my day! I was smiling to myself, even when I was on the bus home. Yet this saying made a lot of sense to me.

You see, many of us go through work, or even go through life, sometimes finding it all too easy to think of things in the bad light. Positive thinking always seems to require intentional effort & determination to continue in that line of thought. Even so, this is one thing that is important coz it helps us to keep our hope & not fall away in despair.

I'm not saying that we should just think positively & forget about God... but I'm saying that both are important. We can't just resign to our difficulty & throw everything to God to do... & we do nothing at all. That's neither right, nor appropriate for our personal or character development. Even when God created the Earth & all that is in it, He placed Adam to work in the fields & tend to the animals. Work has its place in our life on Earth, though it does not comprise of everything in our life.

I do hope that I can buck up on this area of perseverance & positive thinking. It takes a change of mindset to see things differently & positively, even others around are just lamenting in self pity. I hope to change for the better. This attribute will help me to take care of my future family too.