21/06/2020
"Some people feel the rain. Other just get wet."
•Often when we perceive an experience as unpleasant, we try not to feel it - we divert our attention to the sense of injustice or inconvenience and our own anger or irritation. But as Shakespeare's Hamlet said, "there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Or Victor Frankl, who puts his survival of the holocaust down to choosing his own attitude: "The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
We are always the masters of our own experience and we can choose how to interpret it. Some choose to feel the rain; some don't realise they have that choice, and they just get wet.
Bob Marley is promoting mindfulness - being in the moment and welcoming whatever it brings. He's singing about the difference between consciously living your life and simply being swept along by what happens to you.
Ultimately it's about feeling empowerment and gratitude for whatever is happening right now, which leads to a deep sense of connection, fulfilment and happiness.
Muse:
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