Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
Positive Attitude is looking at everything in an optimistic manner, trying to find the best in every situation of life. It is believing in yourself and believing that your hard work will eventually pay off.
Studies have proved that people with a positive attitude, besides being happier and having less anxiety also live longer and have a lower mortality rate due to diseases like cancer, heart diseases and many more.
It is clear that there is a strong link between positivity and health. Additional studies have found that a positive attitude improves outcomes and quality of life across a spectrum of conditions including traumatic brain injury, stroke and brain tumors.
Positive attitude brings calmness during difficult situations. It finds a beam of light through a small hole in a dark room. It makes you triumph over failure. It shows the way to move on at each step with more confidence. It energizes you and relieves stress. It gives the reason to go ahead.
Personally, I believe that one of the best examples of positive attitude is the story of Arunima Sinha.
Arunima Sinha is the world’s first female amputee who has climbed famous mountains like Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Vinson (in Antarctica) and many more. Her story started in 2011 when she was thrown off a moving train by some robbers when she refused to give up her gold chain. The robbers had thrown her on the opposite railway track and before she could get up, a train ran over her left leg. She was taken to the hospital where the doctors amputated her leg. During her treatment is when she had decided that she would climb Mount Everest.
After her treatment, she contacted Bachendri Pal who was the first Indian woman to summit the peak of the Himalayan giant. Arunima then joined the basic mountaineering course from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering and was sponsored by TATA Steel. After 18 months of training under Bachendri Pal, a 25-year-old Arunima climbed Mount Everest on May 21, 2013 and showed that nothing is impossible if you truly put your mind and heart into it.
Her story is very inspiring. She had her leg run over by a train, had it amputated but instead of being upset about the things that had happened to her, she looked at the bright side of things and became an inspiration for the whole world.
She did not stop there. After climbing Mount Everest, she set herself a goal to climb the highest peak in each continent and achieved her goal on January 4, 2019 when she climbed Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica.
Studies suggest that we should make efforts to boost optimism, which has been shown to be associated with healthier behaviors and healthier ways of coping with life’s challenges. Positive attitude is a state of mind.
I would like to end with a quote by Winston Churchill: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Neilay Agarwal, 10D