Negativism

A night’s sleep rejuvenates the body for the next day. Early morning you wake up to read the paper. The fresh-as-coffee mind & heart reads of murders, wrong doings, and everything that is not correct. You start to work with these thoughts.

At work, your colleagues or managers, there will be someone who’ll point out something wrong you did. They never have time to tell something good that you have done. Dejected you are!

You come back home after a tiresome and thankless day. Your family starts pouring in their miseries. You have not done this, why did you forget to get the things of the list I mentioned, etc.

You are no different! You give back the same to your parents, to your spouse, to your kids and friends and neighbors.

In office, we have post mortem meetings most of which talks about what went wrong and how to avoid it. After some debate of wrong-doings some time is given to talk about the good, in a hurry. Though they get documented very few people get back to it for future reference.

Why do we think always of negative things? Why don’t we develop appreciation characteristics? Are we immune to see positive side of life?

I think we see the positive side of life only when we are in dire consequences or when it comes totally as a pleasant surprise.