Title: Always Think Positive, There Is Always Somebody Worse Off Than You Word Count: 501 Summary:

This article is about learning to think positive. walking about in a state of gloom and depression. of these people until I managed to turn my whole ty-two by taking a different approach. I hope you d enjoyable to read. There are far too many people I have to admit that I was one life around at the age of twen find the article beneficial an

Keywords: positive, thinking, mind, life, success, think positive, can't, stress, worry, s tutter, speech impediment, health, problem Article Body: This article is about learning to think positive. walking about in a state of gloom and depression. of these people until I managed to turn my whole ty-two by taking a different approach. I hope you d enjoyable to read.

There are far too many people I have to admit that I was one life around at the age of twen find the article beneficial an

From around the age of eleven when I started high school to the age of twenty-tw o I was not exactly a happy person. One person actually mentioned that I walked around like I had the weight of the world and its problems on my shoulders. I was always looking at other people in my class for example and thought that th ey were so much luckier than I was. They did not seem to have half of the proble ms that I did. I was jealous of them as they were seemingly cruising through lif e where as it was one huge struggle for me. You may be wondering what my troubles were. I had a stutter which had affected m e from the age of four. Stuttering put a huge dent in my confidence and made me withdraw into my shell. I had a weight problem which was mainly caused by comfort eating when I was depr essed. Since birth, I have had a bald patch on my head, it is not a large area o f baldness, however it was big enough for people to notice and mock me. I was al ways the shortest person in the class and for a male I am well below the average height at five-foot four. At the age of eighteen, I was having a conversation with one of friends who is c alled John. John was one of the people I had always been jealous of for many dif ferent reasons. On this particular evening we were both fairly drunk and John ha d became quite emotional. During our conversation he told me that his father was an alcoholic and that at certain times when he arrived home worse for wear that he would hit his mom. He was very worried about this and was not sure what to d o. Over the next few years, I found out aspects of other people's lives in my circl e of friends, which I had not been aware of. The issues I had were very visible, where as their problems had been hidden and kept secret. I have become more and more interested in world affairs since the age of about t wenty. Certain events from around the world have really shocked and I find it ha rd to imagine how I would cope living it various countries. I am now very gratef ul that I was born in the UK.

I have learnt that we all have problems and that in most cases there is always p eople worse off than ourselves. I now try to think in a much more positive way a nd am very happy with the cards I have been dealt.