Musings

Musings

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Fighting negativity only seems to make more negative. I used to fight it until exhaustion and apathy took over, leaving me too tired to fight. And in that free-floating apathy, I naturally drifted up into positivity.

These days, if I’m feeling negative, I remind myself that I don’t need to fight it–I don’t need to care about it. In the long run, everything dies or changes to the point where it becomes unrecognizable. If I’m constructively utilizing this line of thought, I skip straight to apathy, where I can easily drift back into positivity. Works for me, maybe not for everybody.

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  4. Never give up, never give in, never surrender! Feel the emotion, then release it. Find something to be grateful for: a summer sunset, an extra extra curly fry hidden at the bottom of your bag of regular fries, anything that good or right in this world. Put your energy into those things so they grow. Your writing can be one of those!

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  5. Yes, I’ve felt similar, it’s kind of why I keep from posting on social media platforms even though i want to call people out 😄 I’ve realized it’s not worth it to respond because most of the time it doesn’t go anywhere. Still there is always room for healthy ways to fight negativity but yes it can be exhausting and at times worth it and needed.

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    • I’ve called people out before, in social media and real life, and you’re absolutely right. At one point I honed my knowledge of formal logic so I could point out validity and fallacies, but even if I got them to agree, they’d revert back to their old stances shortly after. And in the end, that’s okay, because their life is their journey. As Taylor Swift says, haters gonna hate!

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  6. If you ‘fight’ negativity about something you can’t fix by adding a new negativity about feeling negative … Duh. No wonder you’d soon be exhausted. Yes; cultivate a certain kind of apathy: the kind that says, “This, too, will pass.” There’s an old prayer that might help…

    God give me the strength to change what I can change, the grace to accept what I cannot change, and the wisdom to know which is which.

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  7. I’m intrigued by the notion that I can tend and trigger my emotions so as to adopt a feeling proactively, as it were. On this basis I can will myself into a state of apathy so as to enter the condition that makes me ripe for the easy drift back into positivity. This is self-control on vitamin boost. You make me think until my head hurts. Thank you for that! 🙂

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  8. I think it is more important to find out why your having negative emotions. Negative emotions are part of the human condition. Negativity is just a by product of negative emotions.

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  11. I see not judging yourself, recognizing the impermanence of things, and detachment. All very wise, and echoes of great teachers throughout time.

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