Today, I watched Roko Belic's documentary "Happy". It may be the most amazing documentary I've seen. I also like to watch sharks, underwater creatures, and everything that's made by Michael Moore, (and there is one amazing Turkish documentary-maker), but this one was different. It wasn't the filmography that amazed me so much as the content.
Recently, I've come to realize through multiple experiences and small events that you can make things happen to you simply by hoping for them, or similarly, bad things can happen to you if you keep saying that they will. I used to think that "positive thinking" was simply meaningless.
My mom has always been all about it though. And I regarded her with skepticism most of the time, then, like a year or two ago, I tried to understand her and think like her when I really needed all the things she was telling me that "positive thinking" would bring. But it never worked, because I never really, truly, 100%, 50% or even 40% believed it.
This year, however, I don't know how, things have changed.
Somehow, very fortunately, I became able to see and realize that there is a bigger picture, that the world is not bounded by those ties and places and events and occupations that occupy most of my daily life.
I will definitely not write them here, for the same reason that I didn't believe them when I heard it from others, but I came to appreciate the meaning in some of the ideas and 'sayings' that are considered to be too cliché, unrealistic, and the like.
There are so many things to be thankful for in life, and it is so easy to be complaining for the things that we might not have.
Very fortunately, and very lucky for me that I have, somehow, realized the value in remaining 'positive'. I won't explain what that means not only because I think it has a different meaning for different people, but also because my description of it won't do justice to the realization that I've come to, and I don't want anything to take away from the preciousness of what having figured things out means to me.
Oh, and also, please watch "Happy". It's beautiful :)
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