Too Much Positive Thinking Can Get Us Doomed

We talk and hear a lot about positive thinking and how it can help us in various phases of our life but we don’t talk much about the negative side of positive thinking which is that too much positive thinking can actually drive us away from practicalities and we start to ignore the reality believing that everything will turn out to be good. This too much positive approach can cause some severe damage which we don’t realize in the start and by the time a person realizes the side effects of excessive positive thinking it’s already too late.

I have a friend who had a decent job,wife and three kids. He was not very happy with his job as he wanted to earn more money and improve his lifestyle further. He started a dairy business with his savings and expected that it would give him good returns. At first he was very happy with his business and worked extremely hard to make his business a success, in this process he quit his job thinking that he will invest more time in his business and that would help the business grow even bigger and better. Immediately after quitting the job he started facing hardships as his monthly salary was not there anymore and the business was just in the building up process but he believed that this problem is just temporary and will pass away in a few months when his business will start to make profit. Months passed by but things didn’t get better as his business was still struggling and faced financial crisis but he didn’t want to quit, he stayed positive and borrowed some money from his relatives and friends to invest in his business, unfortunately his business made a loss and all the money he borrowed went in vain but he still believed that his business will soon start to make profit and got small loans from micro-finance banks. He once again invested that money in the same business and was hoping to make huge profits but once again he suffered a loss so bad that he had to close his business and sell all his assets to pay the creditors but still was unable to return the whole amount back to his friends,relatives and the banks. Everyone was after him to recover their money but the problem was that he didn’t have any money so he filed for bankruptcy.

By the time my friend realized that he made a huge mistake by staying positive about his business all the time that it will turn profitable one day it was already too late and he ended up in debt and is still making efforts to pay them back and going through financial crisis and along with him his family also has to suffer who did nothing wrong. Staying positive about things is a great source of motivation but too much positive thinking can also lead us to take wrong decisions as we are driven away from reality and start to live in a world of fantasy. Stay positive, stay motivated but stay close to reality.