Don’t get used to being in a bad mood! | Ali Reza Panahian

Say, “This is a favor from my Lord.” [Qur’an 27:40]

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People allow themselves to give up their good mood very easily. It’s as if a good mood is an asset that isn’t valued very much. If you tell them, “You’re ruining your mood,” they’ll say, “It’s my mood. I want to ruin it. What does it have to do with you?” What’s happened that we easily allow ourselves to give up our good mood? What’s happened that we don’t care about gaining a good mood?
One should stop his/her bad mood. One should avoid it as something dangerous. One shouldn’t wait for the cause of the bad mood to be eliminated. One shouldn’t wait for there to be a cause for a good mood for him to feel good. One shouldn’t sit around waiting for external realities in his surroundings to change in order to feel good. Despite all the internal and external causes for a bad mood, one should oppose a bad mood. Human beings are able to do this. Despite all the factors that cause a person to be in a bad mood, whether they are within him or in his environment, one must gain a good mood.
Becoming used to being in a bad mood is worse than anything else is. Eventually one cannot distance himself from being in a bad mood. There are times when God wants to fix a person’s mood by preparing his environment. But the person looks for factors that ruin his mood again. This has been proven in physiological psychology too. A person’s brain performs some functions. If he gets used to these functions, for example, if he gets used to having negative thoughts and sorrows then lets his mind be free, since it’s easier for the brain to do repetitive actions, it will repeat the same negative thoughts again. It will only have negative thoughts and sorrows. A person’s physiological structure will become such that he cannot make himself feel good anymore. His brain has become used to it. A person’s brain cannot easily be fixed through surgery!
Sometimes psychiatrists are forced to give pills to such a person. If they can, they will disable some parts of a person’s brain [with pills] so that this person can be freed. It’s not in his own hands. He can’t be fixed with words because his brain has become used to feeling bad. One who gets used to being in a bad mood cannot easily understand that he is feeling bad. He will say, “This is normal. Others are the same.” He even thinks like this about others. One very important point is that one should not talk about his bad mood with others. This is very surprising. If one feels bad, he shouldn’t tell others. Talking about your problems, especially if it’s one’s bad mood, is very bad. Conversely, one should talk about his good mood. [For example, say,] “This is a favor from my Lord.” [Qur’an 27:40] One should thank God and state His blessings.
Expressing our bad mood ruins the mood of others too. It will make it easy for others to be in a bad mood. It removes the ugliness of being in a bad mood. When one is talking about his bad mood, even if he is sick and has a physical illness, it seems God dislikes this action. It is said in the traditions that if an ill person tolerates pain throughout the night but doesn’t let others hear his cries, God will reward him greatly! This is even though the ill person has a right to complain. “My foot, stomach or tooth hurts.” This pain makes a person restless. But they have said it’s better to not show this. We should be careful of our mood. We need a good mood more than we think. One should stop his/her bad mood. One should avoid it as something dangerous.