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AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
edited April 2008 in A Moving Train
Get sick of all the bad news all the time and the constant negativity of some people who seem to thrive on this. The one's who's glass is always half empty. Never half full.

Today i think 'fuck it.' I'm not listening to negative people. Tell someone else today. I'm putting my hands over my ears and screaming 'i'm not listening'. Like when i was a kid. Damn i wish i was a little kid again sometimes.

Do you think the frequency of the bad news eventually sucks us into a spiral of negative emotions?

Discuss?
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  • prljmngrlprljmngrl Posts: 320
    Yes! In fact, I live with a person like that...my husband. It drives me absolutely bonkers at times. I've learned to just tune him out.
  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    It would be nice if we could pretend everything's great and go on with our lives but that would be ignoring all the injustices in the world like they don't exist. What would happen to the people in Darfur? Iraq? China? if we all covered our ears and eyes to what's really happening?
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    I do. It is poison really. Because, yeah, a lot of things happen that are bad and then we have to talk about it but there are those people who seem to always find the bad in everything it seems. You do have to keep a healthy distance from that because if you don't life is just one bad thing after another and that is not true at all.
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    Together we will float like angels.........

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  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    writersu wrote:
    I do. It is poison really. Because, yeah, a lot of things happed that are bad and then we have to talk about it but there are those people who seem to always find the bad in everything it seems. You do have to keep a healthy distance from that because if you don't life is just one bad thing after another and that is not true at all.


    With this thread being in the AMT, if figure it's directed at people who see our political system negatively or maybe world events, the state of the world?.... maybe not though. But people can be pessimistic about anything...their love life, social life, career, financial status or their future...you name it.
    Just because someone happens to see our current political system as a mess, which I do, doesn't not equate with being a negative person overall. Actually, I think it shows that I'm quite hopeful to still striving towards making it better instead of being apathetic about it all and giving up.

    And if this is not what you had in mind when you started this thread then just ignore this. :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    It would be nice if we could pretend everything's great and go on with our lives but that would be ignoring all the injustices in the world like they don't exist. What would happen to the people in Darfur? Iraq? China? if we all covered our ears and eyes to what's really happening?
    Well, i wasn't talking about covering them forever! Just a few hours. It was more the question 'Do you think the frequency of the bad news eventually sucks us into a spiral of negative emotions?'. I wasn't in any way suggesting that people here are purposely negative. Abook, you are probably one of the most positive people that post here.

    I have dealt with so many messed up people and things lately, (work), and i am usually really good at staying positive, but today it has not been as easy to do that.

    I think i just need a hug. Waaah! Ok, all better now ;)
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Pj_Gurl wrote:
    Do you think the frequency of the bad news eventually sucks us into a spiral of negative emotions?

    No. Life's too short.
  • HushBullHushBull Posts: 996
    You have a pretty bad attitude about negativity...
    "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Pj_Gurl wrote:
    Well, i wasn't talking about covering them forever! Just a few hours. It was more the question 'Do you think the frequency of the bad news eventually sucks us into a spiral of negative emotions?'. I wasn't in any way suggesting that people here are purposely negative. Abook, you are probably one of the most positive people that post here.

    I have dealt with so many messed up people and things lately, (work), and i am usually really good at staying positive, but today it has not been as easy to do that.

    I think i just need a hug. Waaah! Ok, all better now ;)


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    I can be negative about things (mostly political stuff) so I was just wondering what or whom you were considering to qualify for the spiral of negativity suckers. Hehehe :D Sorry, I'm tipsy. :p

    But yeah, I feel ya about how it manages to suck us all in at times. We have to watch where and how often we tread these waters...and know when to detach, do all you can do individually and hope for the best. :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • spiral outspiral out Posts: 1,052
    Pj_Gurl wrote:

    Do you think the frequency of the bad news eventually sucks us into a spiral of negative emotions?

    It can affect some people in that way but it's all state of mind. You either hear something and think how to solve the problem or you here it and tune out because you can't deal with it.
    Keep on rockin in the free world!!!!

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  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    I rolled out this morning
    Kids had the mornin' news show on
    Bryant Gumbel was talkin' 'bout the fighting in Lebanon
    Some senator was squawkin' 'bout the bad economy
    It's gonna get worse you see, we need a change in policy

    There's a local paper rolled up in a rubber band
    One more sad story's one more than I can stand
    Just once how I'd like to see the headline say
    "Not much to print today, can't find nothin' bad to say", because

    Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
    Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
    Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
    We sure could use a little good news today

    I'll come home this evenin'
    I'll bet that the news will be the same
    Somebody takes a hostage, somebody steals a plane
    How I wanna hear the anchor man talk about a county fair
    And how we cleaned up the air, how everybody learned to care
    Whoa, tell me

    Nobody was assassinated in the whole Third World today
    And in the streets of Ireland, all the children had to do was play
    And everybody loves everybody in the good old USA
    We sure could use a little good news today

    Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town
    Nobody OD'ed, nobody burned a single buildin' down
    Nobody fired a shot in anger, nobody had to die in vain
    We sure could use a little good news today
    make sure the fortune that you seek...is the fortune that you need
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    i used to read the newspaper everyday but found that it depresses the hell out of me, so now i just read it maybe once a week and read a few news blurbs on the internet. ignorance really is bliss! especially once you realize you can't change 99.99999% of the things that go on in the world.
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    With this thread being in the AMT, if figure it's directed at people who see our political system negatively or maybe world events, the state of the world?.... maybe not though. But people can be pessimistic about anything...their love life, social life, career, financial status or their future...you name it.
    Just because someone happens to see our current political system as a mess, which I do, doesn't not equate with being a negative person overall. Actually, I think it shows that I'm quite hopeful to still striving towards making it better instead of being apathetic about it all and giving up.

    And if this is not what you had in mind when you started this thread then just ignore this. :)


    no, but see, THAT is the difference. You can feel that there are a lot of fucked up things. And damn, there are. Too many fucked up things that are awful awful and cannot be ignored as if they didn't exist nor are our own to try to better. But what I mean is the people that go in every situation trying to look for the worse in it all. That is (I think??) the thread starter's point.

    right Pj_gurl?
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    writersu wrote:
    no, but see, THAT is the difference. You can feel that there are a lot of fucked up things. And damn, there are. Too many fucked up things that are awful awful and cannot be ignored as if they didn't exist nor are our own to try to better. But what I mean is the people that go in every situation trying to look for the worse in it all. That is (I think??) the thread starter's point.

    right Pj_gurl?
    That's right. Some people thrive on it.
    Thanks for the input everyone.
  • cheeseandricecheeseandrice Posts: 206
    I work in a place where EVERYONE is negative. EVERYONE complains all day. I come to work with a smile on my face and I try to lighten the subject most of the time.

    But, when I can't shine any more light on them, then I just use their negativity to entertain myself. I just laugh. Sometimes it's evil, but I'm not going to let that negativity into my life.
    I will hold the candle until it burns up my arm. I'll keep taking punches until their will grows tired. I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind. I won't change direction and I won't change my mind.
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    cheeseandrice wrote:
    I work in a place where EVERYONE is negative. EVERYONE complains all day. I come to work with a smile on my face and I try to lighten the subject most of the time.

    But, when I can't shine any more light on them, then I just use their negativity to entertain myself. I just laugh. Sometimes it's evil, but I'm not going to let that negativity into my life.


    that's the best you can do and if it ever gets under your skin and you can no longer see the joy in life, then do all you can to get the hell out of there.......
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    MrSmith wrote:
    i used to read the newspaper everyday but found that it depresses the hell out of me, so now i just read it maybe once a week and read a few news blurbs on the internet. ignorance really is bliss! especially once you realize you can't change 99.99999% of the things that go on in the world.


    yeah, I use to as well (read the news daily) but I started to wonder why the hell no one was putting anything good that happened in there; I was sure that there had to be good things. And I thought it a good idea to level it with one of each but in the end, I guess people love drama ....well most people (not me) and it probably doesn't sell.
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
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