Discovering the Secret
In our lives there has always been somebody who is living your "ideal" life, someone that has everything who you have always desired. Oprah Winfrey earning 350 million dollars a year, Tyra Banks living the life of her dreams... What do these individuals know that allows them to maintain so much success and happiness? The book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is an amazing book that introduces you to a world in which there exists no limit, a world in which you will always succeed and become anything and have everything that you have always wanted.
Over the past decades, the evolution of society has come to a point in which how powerful you may be or how rich you are, is the only thing that seems to matter. However, there is also poverty and starvation everywhere you look. Why is it that the people who don't need the money or car or house seem to receive them anyways? This is because whether they know it or not they are using a great secret. Part of the secret is that every thought that you have is attracting something to your life, good or bad, it doesn't matter. Studies have shown that a positive thought is a million times more powerful than a negative. This explains why the people who do what they love for a career and not for the money are truly the most successful people, because they are always content. and by being content you will have happy thoughts, resulting a happy life.
When I first read this book, it was as if someone had splashed me with cold water, allowing me to open my eyes, and realize all the things that I have in my life in which I should feel eternally grateful for. Being able to live in a country in which you have freedom of speech, and if you were born poor you can rise up and succeed in life, is amazing. If we could just stop time and look around us, look at everything that we have and be thankful for all of them, our lives would be perfect because we have experienced a very powerful feeling; gratitude.
It is very obvious to see that when a person is being negative about something or someone they seem to receive more of it. They are attracting all these circumstances to themselves. I definitely feel thankful to have read this book because all that it mentions makes sense. When you feel bad or depressed you seem to get more of such because you have negative thoughts which make the whole situation worse. However if instead of whining you could embrace the issue and make the best of it, you would began to take control of you life and start to open up to new possibilities that will bring you happiness and prosperity.
The Secret by Rhonda a life changing book teaching one to be grateful in life, teaching one to take control of you life and change it for the better. Life can give you all the abundance and happiness you will ever want; however, it is up to you to determine weather or not you will be appreciate such.
Creative Story:
As the train was approaching and the cold harsh wind began to blow, Isabella was suddenly attacked by a rush of excitement and joy spreading all over her body. Just the thought of her reuniting with her loving twin sister Victoria after being separated at the age of seven. Due to a horrible fire that killed her whole family miraculously excluding her and her sister was still very shocking. How the fire started, and who had saved the two toddlers was still, a mystery.
Now after nine years of absence in each other's lives, Isabella was dying to get to know Victoria. Thanks to the help of her Aunt Camilla who had taken care of Victoria for the past nine years, had finally tracked her down.
"If only Aunt Camilla had found me as quick as she found Victoria, I know my life and my sister's would have been much, much different", Isabella began to think.
These thoughts were soon vanished after she saw Aunt Camilla and Victoria walking towards her.
As soon as the two sisters saw each other, it was as if somebody had pressed a pause button. All they did was stare at each, it seemed as if they were both staring at a mirror, their similarities were impressive. Long thick brown hair, high cheek bones, beautiful hazel eyes with that intriguing look, were one of the many characteristics these twins shared.
"Well, is that all you two are going to do, stare at each other?", Aunt Camilla asked.
The two sisters hugged immediately unable to speak, unable to cry, their emotions took over.
It appeared as if the years had done nothing to their bond, however there was something about Victoria now, that didn't seem right. Victoria had a secret. Luckily, Aunt Camilla opened the door, releasing all the tension, and asked for Victoria to come out of the room and help her unpack.
"Oh, Aunt Camilla I would be more than happy to help." Isabella said
"No!" Camilla declared. She bit her tongue. " I mean no thank you, I think Angela could use your help though." Camilla said.
Isabella was now very confused; seeing her Aunt respond to her that way was unreasonable. She couldn't believe what had just happened. But as told she went to see what Angela the 70 year old woman who had raised Isabella, needed. She started to help Angela prepare dinner. As soon as Victoria and Camilla walked out of the room and towards them, she slowly began to notice Victoria's irritated eyes.
"Were you crying?!" Isabella asked very concerned.
"No, no, I'm just, she began to slowly look at Camilla who gave her a piercing look.
"So happy to have you in my life again", she finished.
"I know that I may not live in the most glamorous house, and that we're not half as wealthy as we use to be, but I promise to be the best sister, the same that I was nine years ago".
"Oh Isabella. If only you knew,"Victoria began to think her heart was now being crushed because she couldn't tell her sister the truth.
Days, weeks, months passed. Every day the sisters spent as if it were their last. One day while Isabella and Victoria were in the park. With Angela and Camilla. They were admiring their beautiful surroundings, the trees were looking over them, birds singing their angelic melodies, and they were breathing all the perfumes of the flowers, and gazing at all their misty colors. Everything seemed perfect, however as they were climbing a steep hill, Isabella leaned over her shoulder and was frightened by the image of her beloved Angela laying on the green grass fighting to take a breath. It seemed as if she was imploring to be able to take a breath and say something that would help her relive all this anger and die in peace but as soon as she was going to say word her whole body shut down. Grabbing her arm in pain, her face was now calmer, it was obvious Angela had suffered from a heart attack. Angela was dead.
"No, no, no!!"
"Please Angela open your eyes, please I beg you" Isabella and Victoria were bawling while Camilla was frigid. Standing there with her eyes as cold as ice, her face did not have any sympathy or compassion. She was just standing there with an expression of satisfaction.
It was impossible to recover from this tragic loss. Isabella had no idea what the future held for her, without Angela her world had collapsed. Thank god she had her Aunt and Victoria what better company could she have had she thought.
As time passed, Isabella began to get over Angela's death. She would still every day visit her tomb. The only good outcome of all of this was that Victoria and Isabella were inseparable, watching each others' back and defining a perfect example of sisterly love. However each time the two sisters would open up to each other and say how they felt Victoria still gave this impression of shadiness as if she was scared to say too much and give something away.
"Victoria are you feeling okay?"
"Um.. Yes I feel fine" She said sounding very dishonest.
That same night Victoria began to have high fevers coughing what seemed to be blood!
"Aunt Camilla, tell me what is happening to my sister please I beg you!"
"Why is she doing all of this all of a sudden?"
Camilla just stood there not knowing what to say next but finally came clean and said
"She has always been acting like this but you were so slow you never noticed."
Camilla reached her hand and touched Isabella's shoulder. "Victoria has tuberculosis she will die."
This couldn't be happening to her, her whole life was being is ruined. There is no possible way that now that her and Victoria were finally together she has a deadly disease and will die!
"NOO!, what have I done, why me!?" said Isabella while crying her eyes out.
"Ohh, Isabella you are as weak as you mother, no wonder it is so easy to fool you!"
"You will never succeed in life you are worthless!"
Was she hallucinating? What is happening, what happened to her Aunt that changed her to a devil.
"My plan is going wonderful!"
"What are you talking about!? What plan?!?"
"Oh, have you ever wondered how on earth only YOUR house got burned and how miraculously you and your sister survived?"
Isabella could hear Victoria in the back ground, hearing her struggle trying to get up and finally tell her the truth.
"Isabella.." Victoria's voice was almost gone her whole face was so pale her beautiful hazel eyes had a dull stare and her stance was becoming weak.
"Oh.. Victoria please don’t waste your energy trying to prevent what is going to occur" Camilla's gave an expression of cruelty to poor Vitoria.
"I was the one who killed your family, I hated my sister, your mother! She was always the favorite one who lived the perfect life with the perfect husband! Now I have the money that you two would have inherited however since she can die any second, I will need someone to pretend to be her and that will be you my dear.Otherwise the money will not be available for me anymore and Auntie Camilla doesn't want that to happen."
Isabella felt so weak watching Victoria practically fall apart in front of her eyes and hearing all of this all at once was too much for her. She wanted to do something but it seemed as if her whole body was opposing.
"Isabella, oh Isabella your life is going to.." before finishing what Camilla was going to say they both saw Victoria slowly drop down to the floor lean over to Isabella and say
"Isabella, I will never forgive myself for putting you through what you are going to live for the rest of your life please forgive me" Her eyes began to close, but still she managed to look at Isabella one more time and say, "Please" her soul was free now, her soul was free of evil, her soul was free from Camilla.
