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Positivity

I’ve been reading a bit about positivity, this past hour. I have been trying to project what I’ve read, mentally, in scenarios where I’m under stress to see how things work out. I couldn’t make peace with the fact that sometimes letting go and keeping quiet is the best course of action. That sometimes, just sometimes, shutting up and letting things happen is the only way to get over a bad situation. The fallout can be dealt with. The one percent of our animal nature within helps us rebuild every time. I can feel an uneasiness settling, making its home in the center of my being. Writhing in malcontent and uneven distaste, counterbalanced hatred for this feeling I’m riddled with. Where is the good in all this? Is that what forgiveness is? Swallowing the bitter pill? Turning a new leaf? Among other euphemisms for being a suck up. Something that’s very hard to do. Two minds too blind to make themselves up. Nothing is accomplished in confusion. One kills while the other cries. Despair and hope side by side, waiting for one to rise and the other to fall. Positivity is elastic, it can be stretched to fit over what you deem right. It can be mistaken for a rush of energy, a thirst for life, a sense of achievement, an inebriated night. All the while festering, brooding, decaying inside, a heart of sadness, that once did smile.
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Posted on February 17, 2015

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#bullshit#optimism#positivity
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