Negativity is the shanty dormitory town that many run to for refuge; where their excuses are validated and approved. Negativity has friends, relatives, comrades, cousins and neighbours. However all the kinsmen and friends of negativity are loud, always complaining, cynical, glum and depressed.
If you are negative you have conversation advantage. In a queue you will always have someone to complain to and commiserate with. If there is no one you will always have the weather to curse. Negativity makes you a sharp analyst. Suddenly you give eloquent analyses of what is wrong, who caused it and why it is broken. You always seem intelligent and clued up. Negativity bequeathes you with prophetic powers. Suddenly you can foretell the gloom ahead, the doom we are in and the mess that will never go away. Many nod, shake their head and walk away. You feel vindicated and satisfied. At least you have followers who also see what you see and hopefully are experiencing what you are. Negativity makes you feel needed, appreciated and listened to. In a conversation you are never odd, because everyone is complaining also. You fit in perfectly. That helps your feelings, but takes you nowhere like a rocking chair.
The only problem with negativity is that it is like sun glasses. When I was young my father has some dark green sun glasses. I used to sometimes try them and they were fascinating to look through. Putting on the glasses, everything around me had a greenish tint. The color was so real. I could swear that the whole world was greenish. That was true until I removed the glasses. Negativity is like my father’s green glasses. Once you are looking at everything through the green negativity glasses everything is negative. Even in the midst of opportunity you will see negativity first.
Never forget that while you are putting on your green negativity glasses, not everyone is putting on the glasses. Never let opportunity pass you by while you linger in negativity. Do not allow other people’s negativity become yours. As you assemble your choir of negativity singers, do not forget to look closely at who is in your audience. It just may be that you those who see what you do not see are too busy with life to be entertained by your negativity. Never let those who are not going anywhere, discourage you from exploring the world. Never create your world on the negative and dull templates of the prophecies of the lazy.
You do not afford the luxury of a negative thought and disposition to life.
Committed to your greatness.
Milton Kamwendo.
