You see, our attitude is our mind.
In effect, it can translate much of what our senses relay.
Like me, "profound" hearing loss since infancy, without amplification, it lacks the capacity to feed me everything "normal" hearing affords others. I often react/reply, to another persons question that is not even close....
And I wonder why I get weird looks...my eyes are good, btw
If they didn't stop the conversation right there, asking me what in the heck I meant.....then both of us lost out at the gift of expression, and exchange, and go forward based on ignorance.
I now left them with a impression, or attitude, about me, that wasn't based in truth, but misconceptions.....we both lose out with such a scenario
It’s not tangible—it's something we control, our attitude,
and have a choice over.
Surgeons can open you up and do brain surgery, but no surgeon can open you up to see your mind, let alone do surgery on it, only YOU CAN.
My part, for years, I had no idea I had a hearing problem, I had nothing to compare it to, as if heard good, then noticed I couldn't....
I developed the technique of guessing what others were saying, meaning, instead of asking them to please repeat, etc......
I stopped that early on as some folks would get irritated, and as a kid, I knew better than to invite that...YIKES.
I am pretty certain I would have been labeled ADD, for just not paying attention...but this was way back before they started on medication, etc,.
So, my "attitude" toward lots of things were based on falsehood.
Factor that in with gathering input/information based elsewhere on summation, assumptions, opinions, etc, by others, I had then in effect forfeited my own senses and defaulted to those of others.....which then shaped my attitude, rightly, or wrongly......
That is why I am all screwed up
Anyway.....attitude is way more than the toxic expression so many appear to hide behind, its also a valuable link to investigate oneself at finding many riddles (WHAT DID THEY SAY?) to the things that plague us with neediness, anger, resentments, etc, which block us off from our natural joy.......
DID YOU HEAR ME?
PEACE!