If You Were Good Then, You'll Be Good Now

 

Anyone WHO agrees that POSITIVE TRAITS and ACTIONS are contagious enough in life?  Straight from researches, those studies show that once we have established those POSITIVE TRAITS and even ACTIONS, it will take considerably less efforts to be exerted as compared to IF you haven't rooted it deep within you.  Part of habit formation.  Part of character building.  Listening from the experts, they claim that is NO sheer coincidence.  Instead, they are telling us that this all boils down to one's consistency of character.  As the age-old cliche goes,  IF YOU WERE GOOD THEN, YOU'LL BE GOOD NOW💚💛💜

I CAN'T question OR debate the idea that if you have been known for being GENUINELY and LEGITIMATELY kind, honest, and compassionate, it will be very likely that those very positive traits will naturally continue to shape your actions in the future, barring outliers.  And being GOOD involves more than just a moment of kindness.  NO FLASH IN THE PAN please because it's all about consistent behaviors and choices.  SO HOW?  I CAN'T claim to be an expert counsellor on this BUT doing good, even WHEN unnoticed and incognito, can create that ripple effect in our own life and even the lives of others [WITHOUT even approximating the recognized philonthropists]💧💧💧

There is one school of thought that is difficult to disagree with, that is, CHARACTER FORMATION must be intentional and that it CAN'T be separated even as stand-alone.  Rather, it has to be inclusive and consistently sustained every step of the way.  BTW, our CHARACTER FORMATION is frequently in a forked road, as it could either veer towards the good OR the bad.  BTW, the more common NEGATIVE traits that get embedded within us.  LIKE being fatalistic, which is seriously detrimental.  Imagine if we're facing a problem and we simply shrug our shoulders off because we would leave everything to God !@#$%? to sort out things and eventually fix our problem.  Frankly, this is a very self-defeating mindset!!!

And there's that CRAB MENTALITY?  That attitude to pull down and bring down someone else [whose trajectory is going up 'north'] and all along, our 'sinister' hope is bring that person down down 'south'.  And there's that short-spanned EXCITEMENT where we would witness at the start of every endeavor or activity BUT after all the initial hoopla, the momentum wanes until things would seem to fizzle out💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  The biggest miss we often witness WHEN it comes to CHARACTER FORMATION is that sometimes, we do act and move but it becomes TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE.  We DON'T plant the seeds of positivities once we reach middle age.  It would even be late to plant those seeds by the time we're settling down and starting to raise our own family.  Lesson learnt many times over is that undeniable fact that IF YOU WERE GOOD THEN, YOU'LL BE GOOD NOW [barring those outliers of course😡😡😡