Quote Originally Posted by Dianeva View Post
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The issue has been bothering me daily, about every time I'm by myself and start thinking. I've noticed that I tend to think negatively, I observe my surroundings and think about life with a sort of depressed mindset.

I've been especially noticing people who seem positive all the time. When I try to imagine being positive, it seems like it would be so fake. It seems like there's some fundamental honesty in negativity that could never exist in a positive mindset. Some truth in depression that's missing in happiness. I've been trying to decide what this is, whether it's just a feeling; maybe I consider negativity so much a part of my identity it just feels more comfortable to be negative. But it seems like more than that. It seems like, while being critical and negative I'm able to think more deeply, more clearly, I'm able to uncover truths about things that I wouldn't while happy. Any thoughts on this?

Where on the negative-positive scale should we strive for our thoughts to be? As positive as possible? As negative as possible? Some balance? What's the balance? Or should we just think however we automatically feel like thinking?


Being positive, doesn´t affect our honesty in how we see the World..and if you meet someone that is positive and seems to look at the world without critical sense, that is because, probably, that person created a bubble around itself and that bubble distorts all the inputs that that person receives from the outside surroundings. Generally that kind of people usually doesn´t last long, the World events smash theyr bubble and they get depressed. You can be a positive person and still be introspective about what surrounds you.The trick is hedony.

Being positive gives you more advantages than being negative...we are what we want to be...