Covid-19 era and Positive thinking

Adyar Saadi Khudhur
Department of English
Cihan University - Erbil

While the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus 19 leads the individuals to a pessimistic world since it has been continuing from Dec. 2019 and resulted in dozens of thousands of deaths, challenging it is still not impossible. People are facing a serious, complex, and unusual time all over the world when they pass an extraordinary situation. Here, a sense of dismal overcomes the humanity when the social ties have been cut and almost all the activities done by the individuals have been stopped. The main streets are evacuated in the biggest capitals of the world like: New York, Paris, Madrid, Rome, and many others that have been facing a complete lockdown which have never been recorded before. In such a lockdown when almost all the countries of different continents face a dilemma which no one is on aware when and how it vanishes, it is not odd, looking from a different angle, to think positively and have a positive emotion about life.

There are many activities that we can do in order to occupy our free time indoors. It is the real time to elevate your mood and inspire optimism not only to your soul, but also to those who surround you. I want to remind you with this inspirational statement of Marie Curie who says that nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. At least, we can learn in this circumstances how to live another life.

Positive thinking has an important role in obtaining the objectives. The one who thinks positively may get what he wants easier and faster than a pessimistic individual. At the same time, the matter is related to the waves that come from the outside world where things, sometimes, don’t match the wishes. Hence, an optimistic person is the one who works hard and is motivated by his wishes in a way that his thoughts would only focus on what he strives for. Such a person is not worried about the obstacles that get to his/her way. Then, positive thinking helps the individual to pass over obstacles easily so as to get the intended goal. It also encourages the individual to achieve somethings that a pessimist can’t do.

Therefore, the insistence of a wishful person produces a kind of positivity because the person hopes to get what he wants and spends all his efforts for the sake of pleasing his desires. Thus, the need for a good life requires striving by the individual; otherwise it is not an easy matter to be achieved. So, If someone decides to apply positive thinking in his life, s/he should apply it in the reality.