Avoiding Negativity for 12 Days: a reasonable goal?
Things are opening back up.
Restrictions are easing.
Vaccines are more accessible. Pills are coming.
The canal is open.
Thinking about some of the negative things I’ve experienced lately and/or been witness to has me shifting focus. Focusing on things that aren’t negative (they don’t have to be overtly positive, just not nasty) is going to be my goal for the rest of the month. Sure, it’s only twelve days… but trying to stay away from the negative for any length can be a difficult task.
Does doing so manifest ‘good’?
I don’t know. I’m not so sure. I think a situation is what you make it or, at least, how you react to it. I’ve been slowly piecing together a ‘community’ of disabled women to follow on Instagram, which has been so wonderful. People who share my experiences as a young person living with rheumatoid arthtirits.
Work is going pretty good, too. I was happy to get back into the studio now that the kids are back to ‘in person learning’. This will be a blip in the timeline of our lives as we get older, I hope. Working from home is a privilige but it’s exciting to be able to fully perform in a way only a host can from the control room.
One of my original videos has received nearly 1.5 million views. I made the mistake of checking that out (I’ve never had such online ‘success’) and some of the comments were… well, you know! So, yeah…. back to my original point:
It’s going to be tough to stay away from the negative for the next twelve days but it’s worth a shot.
What does ‘staying away’ mean? Here’s my guideline that I am completely making up as I go:
No reading the comments when I am not physically at work.
No searching for or through old social media posts.
Avoid or ignore inflammatory situations (online and IRL).
Get outside.
Have more conversations with friends.
Plan for something exciting.
I’m not going to try and be positive or sunny or bright because life just isn’t like that. I’m going to try and avoid the negative, which is doable.