I suppose you can call me
negative for I do notice more cheating than helping attitudes of the people
around me. I also hear more cry for help then people extending their hands to
help others. My eyes catch more crimes than the good deeds in the society, and
I hear more sad stories from around the globe the first thing in the morning.
Melodious peace-songs are not for the morning-news, I guess.
Have you ever noticed the
negative words outnumbering the positive ones in your dictionaries? It's true!
As I write this piece, I searched for a few appositives to challenge my
thoughts and found only a few positives of them. Strange, you might think, and
it is!
You may find it wired to believe
that our world is made of more negative materials, more negative people, and
more negative vibes. This is why we see more bad dreams than the good
ones. Instead of taking us to the sunny beaches and green meadows, our dreams often
take us to the dark and scary places. I wanted to find out why. Then, I read
this:
“…First Glimpse of the
shadow universe around us…” in January 2015 National Geographic. In it I read
that our old galaxy was made up with more of the “dark matter” and “dark
energy” than the ‘normal’ matters and ‘normal’ energy we see nowadays. “Some of
that dark energy are still floating around the universe”, I read. All my bad
dreams suddenly make sense to me!
However, to give my negativity
a chance I read a few biographies of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ people and found
that the negative people are closer to reality than the positive ones. I don’t
know if this makes sense to you, but it does to me. For example, I’m one of
those negative persons whose future predicaments have come to materialize 95 percent
of the time out of 100.
I’ve observed the lives of my
positive and negative friends. As I watch these two categories of people
growing old visibly side-by-side, I noticed the negative persons living their
lives placidly than the positive ones. For example, my positive friends thought
everything was happening to them because of the choices they made. But when they
got into the situations that they hadn’t think about, they were doomed. They didn’t
know how to come out of them. On the other hand, my negative friends, who had
been reeling about their misfortunes for years, knew adversities are part of
their lives and found their way out in real difficult situations.
It seems to me that there is
some merit for being a negative person after all!
