Being brainwashed is not a bad thing, because we brainwash ourselves every day, in every moment, and in every flash of our thoughts.

When we think of something unpleasant, especially at the start of each day, we find that our day seems to accumulate and snowball with even more unpleasant events that happened until the day ends. That's because we believe that our day starts badly, so we wait for something good to happen and make us happier, but no, our mind is being wired to get stuck on the fact that "I HAVE A BAD DAY."

On the other hand, when we choose to wake up telling ourselves that our day is going to turn out awesome, and when we believe in it, we do find our enthusiasm to look forward to a brand new day, in which it's going to be full of fun and pleasant moments! (I realise as I was typing this statement, I became to get somewhat more excited, which might be my brain stimulating my thoughts. See how powerful the mind is.) As we get eager to walk another day in our lives, the way we see things are much positive. We don't see PROBLEMS anymore, instead, what we see are CHALLENGES, which bring out even greater opportunities to overcome our daily life matters.

Nothing in this world is good or bad, because they're just things/people/issues that are neutral. It is the human brain that has the ability to differentiate what's good and bad, so that decision-making is possible. (Hence, the ability to differentiate is not a good or a bad thing too!) People often think that they get brainwashed by other people/events such as doing sales, watching a political film and so on. However, each one of us is given a fair chance to CHOOSE. We have the power to make CHOICES. We choose to believe in certain things and not others because of the various unseen forces inside and outside of us (e.g. our principles and values, our best friends' words, self-preferences etc.). In fact, we are the ones who brainwash ourselves everytime because in the end, WE CHOOSE TO DO OR NOT TO DO SOMETHING due to the various reasons we have in mind (not choosing to do anything is a choice too!), most of the time without consciously knowing it at all.

While we stubbornly think that brainwashing is a negative thing, we're actually doing it on ourselves, which, is not a good or a bad thing. It's just a natural process of life.

And the life we want to live, is in our hands, in the choices that we make for ourselves,
through the process of brainwashing,
which simply means "changing the mindset/viewpoint/thinking/perception" (whichever word that sounds best for us).



So after this long reading, do you think you've been brainwashed?
Haha.