Or perhaps it's more that I WANT to be a Pollyanna. For those who don't know, years and years ago, Disney came out with a movie of that name based on a 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter. A little girl named Pollyanna came to live with her grumpy aunt when she was orphaned. Pollyanna was a perennial optimist, always looking for and seeing the good in everything. She played the "glad game" where she would look for things for which she was glad.
But it's very hard to fight the negative beasties! My goodness there is a SOOOOO much negative out there. Everywhere.I.Turn. Commercials are even rife (which may also mean I have the TV on too much, but that's another story).
I work very hard to not listen; no news, no newspaper, no online news sources, nothing, zero, zilch, nada. There is absolutely nothing I can do about it (or 99.9999% of it anyway), so putting it into my brain is so wrong.
And that works to a point. But a few of the people I hang with (kinda can't not hang with them) live on that stuff. And want to share it. Every juicy, ugly, depressing bit of it. It doesn't affect them like it does me (it totally crushes my soul). Even though I've told them how I feel. But they forget. And sometimes gleefully share.
Someone shared that psychologically we need to hear three positives for every negative. I told that to one person and they looked at me like I had three heads!
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I really do believe we need to "see the good in the world" as much as we can. Yes, fix the problems when we can, but all the negative diatribe does nothing but chase the Spirit out. And I really don't want to do anything that will cause that to happen. Gratitude and faith are powerful, and very positive, tools to overcome the world. Make your mind a "no negative zone."
Cheers
You are in good company
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