Negative Focus

I started a seeking challenge this year: seeking something positive each day. Today’s seek is to focus. However, while I was exercising, I found myself focusing on the negative things. 

Negativity became my focus as I realized how many people in this world thrive on it. Often thriving on anger and frustration, meanness and hate, bullying and cruelty. 

Out of frustration,  I often say cruel things towards hate and anger.  

However, am I not doing the same thing? The only difference is that my hatred is for their hatred, not for them. Therefore, I must remove my anger so that my frustrations will not be interpreted as hate directed at them.

I also started focusing on my mistakes and how they have affected my life, which damaged my self-esteem.

Focusing on negativity can lead to a rabbit hole you don’t want to go down. If you do, you may never find your way out.

Positive Focus

Being cruel to hatred does not drive out hatred.  It only feeds it.  Beating yourself up for mistakes does not fix the mistakes.  It only keeps you in a loop of negativity.

Positivity will not automatically fix hate and cruelty. When people become entrenched in their negative patterns, the only thing we can do is ask questions. Whether they can or cannot answer the questions, it will make them think about their behavior and focus on whether it is who they want to continue to be.

They must see themselves for who they are and look at themselves in the mirror. Nothing can be done if they do not wish to transform and are okay with who is looking back.

The same holds of our mistakes.  If we keep holding on to them, we cannot forgive ourselves.

As for myself, yes, I make mistakes, but I believe everything happens for a reason.  My mistakes have led me to write, and I am very grateful.  Seeing what I was doing, I stopped in the middle of my workout and wrote this.  I needed a way to break the loop I was in.

Resurrection

We must never turn our backs on ourselves or anyone seeking change. We must reach out with a helping hand to ourselves and those who need help out of the rabbit hole.

While we cannot force anyone to see through our eyes and feel as we do, we can continue to be kind and empathetic. Our world needs us to focus on that more than anything. 

This cruelty is not new; it has existed since the beginning, and I am unsure if it will ever be destroyed.  But we can have hope that someday everyone will see everyone as a brother or sister and that love is the way.

Ultimately, we must choose who we want to be and what world we want to leave behind.

A beautiful quote:  “Try and leave this world a little better than you found it,”  attributed to Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement. 

Wishing you bliss!