Under the Umbrella of Being Realistic
God said:
It is not unusual for My children to fuss and fume about how they are treated, yet they may sentence themselves to frustration by predicting doom under the umbrella of being realistic.
Someone you know may have been treated unfairly. Perhaps you. In your reasoning – or rather unreasoning – you might determinedly predict unsatisfactory conclusions to follow. Your reasoning is often anecdotal. You would not accept an anecdotal example from a friend as a basis to accept a new drug, yet you might give dismal advice to someone based on what happened to a friend or something you read.
Let me put it this way: Do not, absolutely do not, be the voice of doom when you advise someone else and/or yourself to do or not to take an action.
Someone is going to win the lottery this week. Someone wins every week. It is interesting that everyone I know who plays the lottery run over what it would be like to win. Odds aren't in anyone's favor, yet every week or day someone wins big. Why on Earth would anyone say to a friend: "You will never win."
A friend may want to be admitted to a certain medical school, and you tell him all the ways he won't get in. Whatever the statistics may be, why would you discourage a friend from applying to a particular assuming he won't get in. What advantage do you see?
If a friend of yours wants to be a millionaire when he grows up, by what divine right would you tell him he never will make it. Are you telling your friend that others might, but he won't?
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