The first
time I decided to raise this topic to discuss, I was thinking about the social
life around us, which has been impacting our lives. In this paper, I would like
to raise people’s bad habit that becomes
attitude when they cannot control it
well. Therefore, every single person must be aware of their attitude.
There is a
very well-known wisdom that actually describes how habit and attitude are
inter-related. This wisdom insists that our destiny be determined by our mind.
Let’s study the following wisdom :
Watch your mind, because it will become your word
Watch your word, because it will become your action
Watch your action, because it will become your habit
Watch your habit, because it will become your attitude
Watch your attitude, because it will become your
character
Watch your character, because it will become your destiny
From the afore mentioned wisdom, we can clearly see that our destiny is derived from our
thoughts. Let’s take an example when we’re facing something that hasn’t been
familiar with us. We usually tend to say “come on, it is very difficult, only
expert can do that. We? We’re just nothing.” This expression is a very common
expression uttered by us responding to something new or to something we hate to
do.
If only we
always give our brain to think that it is easy, everything will always come
easy. Even though, of course, there will always something unexpected linger
around us but it doesn’t make any sense to excuse. One other fine example is
when you happen to become a lazy person, you usually have other people do what
is actually you have to do. If you continue to do that, you will end up finding
yourself in a categoty of a person with a very gloomy future. No one will come
close to you. No one will help you. No one will even greet you. Then somehow,
you feel depressed and suicide. See? This is how mind works.
Many experts
say our habit is the key to getting along with others and accepted in various
environments without having to worry about our competence. Well, it goes
without saying that we need competence to work, however, it doesn’t come the
first when we’re talking about quality of a person. Why? The reason is that,
refer to the above wisdom, our habit will shape our attitude. How we
behave to others is the first gate to
win other people’s heart. The question of how we should keep ourselves doing
the good deeds remains to be answered.
You now
might be thinking of how we can avoid being a person with bad attitude. The
good news is- I bet you already know- that bad attitude can be possibly
changed. What we need to have is the courage to start and the commitment to
keep ourselves in the right tracts. Many people, you might be one of them,
actually dare to change however the environment where they live keeps them in a
bad attitude. The environment is somehow the most responsible factor for
people’s behavior. When you think that your current environment put you where
you are now, in this case ‘bad habit’, then you should leave the environment in
order that you instill new values and design new habits which eventually can
get rid off the old attitude and make you a better person with a
never-before-seen remarkable features.
To sum up, I
would like to say that we must watch every single thing we think in order to
keep our attitude good. If you think you have a bad attitude towards others,
then change now. You may find changing our habit or forming a new habit
difficult but it is a very possible thing to do. Doing good deeds will lead us
to be a good person and vice versa. No matter how bad your attitude is, when
you are willing to change it and be a better person, you will!
Picture : http://www.masterkeywisdom.com
by Sabah Laitupa – Moslem University of Indonesia
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