I generally think of myself as a positive person. Although lately I’ve found myself giving things a bit of a negative spin. It is so easy to get sucked into that deep pit of negativity. At first you let some little thing make you grumpy, then another and the next thing you know you’re grumpy at the whole world. When you have that negative attitude, you begin to see everything that happens to you in a bad light. I’ve known people that always seem to look to the negative. If they find twenty dollars, they’ll complain because they really needed the extra money last week. If you make a comment about how nice the weather is, they will tell you it’s supposed to rain tomorrow. Even worse is the fact that negativity can also be contagious. Hang around negative people long enough and you start to be negative yourself.
Today I made a comment to someone (as a joke) that got me thinking… have I been focusing more on negative things lately? As an antidote, I decided to list some positive things that happened to me over the past week or so.
- I received a very thoughtful thank you gift.
- I spoke to an old friend I haven’t talked to in at least four months.
- I made a difference to the library patrons I helped at work.
- I experienced some of the first nice days of Spring in Wisconsin.
- I learned to play a new song on my guitar.
Remember what the comedy troupe, Monty Python said: Always look on the bright side of life.