SSC Selection Post 2022 PYQ — Question 5

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Don’t let the past shape your future. Most of the events of your life have been shaped by your thoughts, attitude and expectations. If your life doesn’t change and doesn’t improve, it means that you are not changing your thoughts, attitude and expectations. It is like playing the same movie in your mind, over and again, and enacting it in your real life, time and again. There is no reason to cling to thoughts, beliefs, attitude and expectations. You can change them if you really want. If you change them, you will start seeing life in a different way, acting in a different way, and consequently, changing the events and situations in your life. Even if circumstances do not change, or cannot be changed, your attitude would be different, and therefore, the impact of circumstances on you would be different, milder, or even non existent. If your thoughts have always been negative, and you keep repeating them, how do you expect to improve your life? If you start thinking about success, instead of thinking about failure, and keep this way of thinking, in time, these thoughts would affect your life. Learn to be peaceful inside you, and you won’t be troubled by external situations or circumstances, even if you cannot change them. Have faith in yourself, and you will be in a better position to handle the affairs of your life. Positive thoughts, about a better life, will sooner or later start affecting the present circumstances and situations of your life, and shape for you, a different, better future. Live in the present moment, not in the past. The past is past. Don’t let it affect your present thoughts and feelings and the situations of your future. Live in the present moment, creating new thoughts about health, happiness, and spirituality.