The Power of Attraction

We have all heard about the power of positive thinking. It is one of the most talked about 'secret' to success. Yet, despite the hype and the talk, few people believe in it. Optimists are deemed dreamers. What is it about human nature that makes us believe the worst about any situation? Why is it that in any event, we gravitate towards the darker side of things? Are we at our very core, evil?
I believe that those who call themselves realists are in fact merely lazy. It is easier to believe the worst. It is because there a ready examples of the worst of things. No one talks about successes the same way they do failures. Misfortune draws a bigger audience than happiness. We've come to believe - especially in this century - that happiness and joy are weak emotions, one that only idealists with their head in the clouds strive for.
Especially in Asia too much emphasis has been placed on duty. The conventional wisdom is if you shoulder your duty and carry it out with honour, happiness should not matter. Happiness has become a pariah in the spectrum of emotions allowed of mankind.
This conventional wisdom must change. Happiness is the only point of life. We are put on this earth and given one life to live. If we do not achieve happiness in this lifetime, we have failed and merely existed. Existence without happiness is not an achievement, it is that which is accomplished by animals and plants. A lowly blade of grass achieves existence...it is happiness that sets us apart, it is happiness and conversely unhappiness that makes us human.
You receive what you ask for and you achieve what you expect to achieve. If that is the case, there is no harm in asking for peace, joy and contentment. It would be a crime to expect to achieve less than perfect happiness. That is the power of positive thinking. This is not the weaker emotion. To carry the positive thought and hold on to it in the face of all this resistance, that is true strength. If you can do that, it is quite possible to do anything.
Just Me.