Negative Focus

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

I was focusing on how many people in this world thrive on negativity.  They thrive on anger and frustration.  Also, thriving on meanness and hate.  They thrive on bullying and cruelty. 

I have also been guilty of this.  I often say cruel things to hate and anger because I get frustrated.   I  don’t understand where their hate for another person comes from.

However, am I not doing the same thing?  The only difference is that my hatred is for their hatred, not for them.  But my frustrations can be interpreted as hate directed at them.

I also started focusing on my mistakes and how they have affected my life.

You can see how focusing on negativity can take you down a rabbit hole you don’t want to go down because 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 is not going to fix hate and cruelty automatically.  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 if it is who they want to continue to be.

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

The same holds true 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 back on ourselves or anyone seeking to change.  We always need to reach out with a helping hand to ourselves and those who need help out of the rabbit hole.

We cannot force anyone to see through our eyes and feel the way we do, but we can keep being 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.