"Is Life a Blessing? Or a Curse?""

I know that’s very old-fashioned language — and very old-fashioned concepts, but I think there’s something important for all of us in these ideas.

Is life a blessing? Or a curse?

Cognitive therapy would say that whichever we believe, that’s what will be true for us. Our belief, one way or the other, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you believe life is a curse, you will live a cursed life. If you believe life is a blessing you will live a blessed life.

The way we think about things, affects how we respond to those things. And then our responses set different courses of events in motion. If you believe life is a curse, then you’ll probably feel despondent and resentful and hurt and angry and hopeless and depressed. You may very well feel that there’s not much point in trying. You’ll probably miss a lot of opportunities.

So follow this logic:

Since no one can know for sure,

And since believing life-is-a-blessing leads to much better consequences.

We should all believe that life is a blessing.

Whether it actually is or not.

Because we can’t really know for sure.

And we might as well get the self-fulfilling prophecy working in our favor.

Or, how about another possibility? Maybe life is BOTH a blessing AND a curse. The blessing is all the beauty and love and peace and truth. The curse is all the hurt and cruelty and destruction and hate. Perhaps both are going on at the same time.