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Wishing for a bigger frying pan?

I would say I have met many people during my life from almost all corners of the world. Some have left a positive, permanent mark on me and I’ve wanted to learn to adapt their life attitude to my life. In the people I admire I’ve observed  relating passionately to life and all it contains.

Now, I’m not talking about people who have learned a speaking technique, by which they can always answer, “Thanks for asking, I’m doing well.” I’m talking about something much more profound. Passion for life is the kind that makes us forget the sorrows of every-day life and sees things in a positive light. It’s a life filled with hope, where the future is an open book we’re writing ourselves.

I want to live my own life passionately. It’s comforting to know it’s possible for everyone, including those whose circumstances seem bad. Even in this case your own choice is what matters.

I’ve also seen concrete changes in people’s lives. They have found some new source of inspiration and through this a new life attitude. Inspiration means, freely translated, ‘to get more oxygen’. When we agree to receive more “oxygen” from others and the universe, and breathe it in, we will find we have a new passion for life.

Finding inspiration can be compared to the situation, where we’re about to leave for a vacation and need to get many things done before it. Think about how fast we get things done, when there’s something pleasant and desired waiting behind the door. At least for most of us holidays are a pleasant thing and we relate to it positively. Consequently we want to quickly get through the tasks, so we can leave. Just before the vacation we get at least twice as much done as normally. Why is this? Because we have agreed to take responsibility for our work and we complete it, in a motivated manner. The same happens when we get inspired. We find a new attitude towards life.

 

A passionate life attitude gives us much more opportunities than we can even imagine.

I once heard a story of two fishermen, strangers to each other, who fished so close they could see the amount and size of fish the other one caught. The one who had arrived there first received everything he could get out of the lake and because he caught many fish, he felt good. He noticed, the other fisherman threw bigger fish back and put only the small ones in his backpack.

“Weird fellow”, the first fisherman thought to himself.

After a while he decided to find out what this was all about. When he asked the other fisherman for the reason for his bizarre behavior, he received a seemingly, sensible answer. The other fisherman said he didn’t have a big enough frying pan to fry the bigger fish. He had bought a too small frying pan for himself.

The moral of this silly story is, we can decide to get bigger opportunities, for example, by relating to life more passionately. When life offers bigger ideas and different insights, let’s receive them. There’s no point in throwing big opportunities back into the lake and saying, “Oh, I wish I had a bigger frying pan.”