Several days ago I was talking to someone about negativity and how it tends to manifest within us if we aren’t careful. I try to be a positive and happy person (most of the time) and see the best in every situation. It isn’t always easy, but it’s something that I try to do, even though not always successful.
What I have noticed (or noticed over the last year) that when we surround ourselves with people who always see things in the negative or as a negative, that it’s quite simple to pick up that behavior. It’s toxic and sometimes even without realizing it we can become negative.
Interstingly enough- last night I was watching TV and during a show someone mentioned a quote (I can’t remember by whom) that said, “There aren’t negative happenings in life, but simply negative reactions.”
I’m a firm believer that perpective is everything, and if you expect negative- you will definitely get it. On the flip side of that coin: it doesn’t mean that you will never be given obstacles (that’s unrealistic and a completely different topic) but it’s what you do with those obstacles that count. You can let them be a brick wall- stopping you in your tracks, or you can use them to learn from- to add to your life experiences that leaves you richer and knowing that the biggest thing stopping us at times isn’t what happens to us- but how we choose to react to it.