Be careful not not hold anger or bitterness, it’s easy to change the situation by being positive.
I heard a great story about this person who lives in the city on a main st, sharing an apartment on the 3rd level over seeing the street.

Every night there is a person, grumpy old man that plays his music really loudly which is obviously disturbing to his neighbor due to the thin walls. One neighbor in particular tries to do meditate every night so you can imagine it may be quiet annoying at 8.30pm at night to have this loud sound.
So every time she will just gently knock on the door and say look, do you mind turning down the music of which the person usually obliges and being in their own little world they are quiet unaware of what they are doing and the implications to other people.
So this goes on week after week, one day her good friend comes over from Italy and they decide to cook up this great meal together and in the conversation this person starts playing the loud music again and says to her friend from Italy this happens frequently, the friend from Italy says “well why don’t we go over and seeing we’re cooking, go over and offer him some food”, guess what the response was, “What!!, are you serious, give him some food, he’s being very annoying. The Italian friend looking at the situation in a positive light says “maybe he’s lonely, maybe he’s unhappy…lets make his life a little bit better”.

So they go over there, knock on his door and say “Hi its Jenny here, I just thought, we are cooking some pasta would you like some?”
Anyway from that moment on things changed, no more loud music and life got better.
So a simple story but I think there is a lot to be learnt from this. Same may happen in an office, if there is someone really annoying, go up to them, do something nice, offer them some help, it’s the last thing they are expecting. They become like an energy magnet so if they got negative energy and you’re giving them negative energy your only making the energy level greater but if you break the cycle, give some positive energy it cancels out negative energy so what are you left with, neutral, and everyone is going to be better off.

So that grumpy person may really just be crying out for some attention.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 10:52 am by Andrew Talati and is filed under Mind & Soul.

Tags: Mind, Positive thinking

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