Our time is finite and, unless you’ve taken something which is convincing your addled brain otherwise, our energy isn’t limitless. Our ability to stay focused is challenging what with all of life’s distractions and our emotional state can be affected by lots of external factors that we have no control over.
Being genuinely happy and achieving ‘success’ personally and professionally is hard. Not impossible of course but certainly a mammoth task.
So why, bearing that in mind, do so many people seem to actively invite negativity into their lives?!
People who seem to only go on social media to gossip, complain, argue with strangers, disrespect people who are doing well or spout outrageous comments to deliberately start trouble.
The ones who didn’t just wake up that day and choose violence; it’s their default setting.
I absolutely recognise that, for many of these types of people, certain things have happened or are happening in their lives which contribute significantly to this behaviour and, without patient support from family and friends, they may struggle to turn things around and find peace. This blog isn’t about these people.
This blog is about the people who are in complete control of their behaviour and, for reasons I cannot comprehend, deliberately choose to be negative and spread negativity.
So long as it’s not directly impacting your life, breaking any laws or inciting hate, what is there really to gain from disrespecting the opinion of and subsequently arguing with a stranger who you’re extremely unlikely to ever meet in person? How much time and energy was lost doing that which could’ve instead been used for something positive?
If your negative actions are played out online in a public forum, can you cite at least 1 way in which that benefits your life? I can think of several ways that it will definitely not help you and your life! Could well cost you a future job or a relationship and, if that were to happen, you’d only have yourself to blame because no-one forced you to be a dick.
This ends as it started; with a question for anyone actively inviting negativity into their life whether that’s at home, socially, work or all 3…
Why bother?
