It's a new year! full of new opportunities, new adventures and new experiences! It's a fresh start, with a new decade and a clean slate ahead of us, there is a fresh new world we can create before us!
That being said...
This rant is going out to those negative people out there. These are those individuals that choose to cloud their vision with nothing but the negative bullshit that is happening or has happened to them. They suck the positive out of the room, they tear down the good moment being experienced, and they generally drag down everyone else into their hole of despair.
That's right. I'm talking about the Debbie Downers out there.
You just can't seem to find the positive in anything. At all. This collective of Negative Nancy's (or Norma/Nick, if you prefer) somehow have this uncanny ability to look at the present and find every single disgusting, terrible, and worthless thing to the surface and shine it under unflattering light, not only shoving it in the face of the rest of the world, but making it look fat and sallow too. If the current day isn't depressing enough for them, they claw out the horros of the past and slap that on a platter for everyone to stare at. Then, just for fun, when the rest of us try to claw for hope under the pile of shit they shovel onto us when we look to the future, they find a way to suck the fun out of that too.
Fun suckers!
To all the Debbie Downers out there, I say this to you:
Get over yourself.
Seriously.
Seriously.
People like this drive me nuts. They have no concept of the big picture that there are good things out there. They can never seem to find the positive spin on anything or even look on the bright side of life. Because it IS there. It must be absolutely exhausting being so negative all the time. Maybe the exhaustion+lack of sleep combo fuels the fire... I'm sure there's a scientific calculation to the process and result of being a Debbie Downer.
Now, I'm not going to leave this with no blood on my hands. I know I have my negative side too. Hell, I'm ranting and bitching about negative people. There's a bit of irony in there, I'm sure. I have my bad days and my own moments being a Debbie Downer. And I'm certainly not perfect specimen of life with a horseshoe up my ass. I have my own shitty moments, bad turns of luck, health, personal, and otherwise issues that aren't necessarily awesomefatasticsauce. Shit happens. It happens to me, it happens to you, it happens to the barbie girl in the mall and the Uberjock on the street. But I have the common sense to know that there is a bigger picture and enjoy the positive in the big perspective of things.
I may not be perfectly healthy, but I'm not dead.
I may hate my job some days, but at least I have one.
I may not be in a relationship with the man of my dreams, but better single than in an abusive relationship.
I may have had things stolen from me, but they're only things. I'm still here.
I may not have my dream job right now, but I have time.
I may be horribly in debt from school, but I have a job and can pay my bills and have a bed to sleep in and a roof over my head.
I may have a bad experience with a stranger, but I still have my friends
I may have a bad day today, but there's always tomorrow. And the day after that.
There's always the positive. You have to see it before you become blinded by all the bad out there.
During the death of Michael Jackson, I got into a back-and-forth FB battle with a friend about him and his persona. I wanted him to be remembered as the Pop icon he was and the positive influence he's had on so many lives and how his work has molded the music and the spectacle of music we see today. My friend only saw the negative of the rumours and trials and the general bad shit that goes with Michael Jackson's name. (You all know what it is, so I won't bother explaining) Now this friend is not a regular Debbie Downer, but it was so frustrating listening to her tear apart this icon. I know he has this bad rep, and i'm in NO WAY saying he's innocent, some of the shit is pretty fucked up. But to ignore all the positive influence he's had is just ignorant and... well, silly.
There'e one thing I said during this back and forth battle. I"m not sure if I made it up or if I got it from someone else, but it still rings in my head now:
"See the good or drown in your own hate."
See the good, people. Find the positive and keep it with you in your life. Otherwise, you are sure to drown. Always look on the bright side of life.
Rant ended.
-janeovision
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