I just watched this very positive movie, Happy-Go-Lucky. Just like the title, the movie shown us how lucky we can be if we are happy. Or, going the otherwise, by being happy we are being lucky.
Many people would question this. Of course it is such a non-sense thing for relating happy and lucky—if we don’t understand what it really means. But let me tell you this: if you are being positive at most of your time, you will see things in very clear way with no judgement or suspicion or any other negative things, therefore you will be open to anything, accept things easily, attract more positive things to your life, and be happy! And by being happy, you will grateful for every little things that comes in your way and feel that you’re a very lucky person.
That’s what "Happy-Go-Lucky" means. That’s how it goes with being happy. First of all: you gotta think positive all the time. See Poppy in that movie: she’s a great example of a happy people, and to her opposite, Scott her driving instructor. He is an example of an unhappy, negative, narrow-minded person. And why is he like that? Because he see things in negative way. He doesn’t like changes, he closes his heart and mind to things around him. He put suspicions in anything is new or different in his way and be judgemental to people around him. That makes him living in his little own world and it isn’t good. See how it turned out in the end of the film? He doesn’t get anything! Because he is such an upset person he’s angry to anything is new or cheerful or positive around him.
My mom is currently reading this “Therapy of Thinking Positive” book by Dr. Ibrahim Elfiky and is sharing with us about being a positive person and this movie is a great example to the topic. The movie really taught us the different way of thinking we meet everyday in our lives and how bad it can get if we continue sticking with one. The negative one is getting worse but the positive one takes it as a ‘rough time’ in her life, put it as an experience, but keep on moving, grateful of being such a lucky person and still being happy. You see, once you are being positive, you will never be drown into a negative. But if you are negative, you are getting nowhere but in your little own closed world. In the end, the negatives will be left by the positives. We don’t need thrashes in our lives, do we?
Talking about Poppy, it came across my mind a little row I had with a client. He told me just two-three weeks ago that I wasn’t focused. He said I could be a good designer but too bad that I’m not focused. I was shocked, being told like that. I almost lost this project I am doing now just because the client couldn’t understand the way I’m running my business. He expected me to work just like any other workers: wake up early, (perhaps) go to work 8 to 5, go home at night and sleep early, not going anywhere on weekends. Well, I can really do all that—if my job was a secretary or accountant!
In fact I am an interior designer who likes to work late at night just when everybody is sleeping, wakes up a little late than 8 a.m., meets clients and suppliers and workers at the appointed schedule, and go to malls or cafés or anywhere else to meet friends or just to see the interior designs… anything that keeps my eyes busy wandering and mind busy collaborating. Because for me inspiration doesn’t come from four-side walls of my room but from things I see out there. I don’t stay on my computer and wait for inspirations. I go to see them, then when I come back to my room, my mind needs time to think about the best way to compose all of the elements in to a great interior design.
That’s how creative minds work, not just by demands and work hours. We do our job whole day, whole week, whole month until the project is done. And this young new-comer businessman told me that I am not focused, not commited, and not worthy of a standard payment—just because I go see my friends and go home at spare times and have personal life.
Who is he, anyway? Does he even pay me a good paycheck? Did he ever employ me? And if the project wasn’t for me, he said my design didn’t have a copyright so I couldn’t sue him if he put my ideas onto his shop. I was almost burst myself to anger but then I remember that this little kiddo is my friend’s fiancé, that’s why I had to have a little respect on her, thanks for that.
So I tried to analyze things more wisely and to think positively—that this kid is a newcomer and the one to be blamed is (perhaps) his mentors at this entrepreneur academy he’s in. And this newbie was such a geek he didn’t have a life until he met my friend—therefore he doesn’t understand the world as well as I do. This little kiddo still needs more nurturing and mentoring, but that’s not my part to do.
I am only his
However, I’m just gonna do my job the best I can and prove it to him: that focus and commitment are depends on how one sees it--just like the movie told us. But maybe my client was right of one thing: I am not really "focused" on my job. I "focus" too much on my life!
So people, please get to know something a little better before you start judging or underestimate someone. If you only see things on the surface, you might as well be judgmental. Once you dig deeper, you will find the beauty and art on all work, on every person, on any thing. You might hurt someone by what you are saying, so please please please think twice, think positive, and think wise!
