Thermostat or Thermometer?

A thermometer measures temperature. It can measure the temperature of your body, meat on a BBQ, and even the weather.

A thermostat on the other hand regulates temperature. If it’s too hot in your home, you can use this device to cool your dwelling. If it’s too cold, then you can use it to warm your home.

If I was a betting man, I could safely assume that the statements above are common sense. However, common sense isn’t always common practice.

In this journey we call life, most people resemble a thermometer. When an unsettling thought creeps into their mind, they allow the emotions behind the thought soak in without the slightest regard of questioning it. They go through life reacting to whatever they are confronted with.

If sadness knocks on the doorstep, they become sad. If it’s anger, they become angry, and so forth.

I say this with a heavy heart because I see it happening to more and more people near and dear in my life. Life throws us cannonballs constantly. One day of joy and happiness can be replaced and tarnished with heartache and despair, but it does not have to be this way. You can live your life like a thermostat. You hold the power of regulating the temperature of your life as you wish.