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Absofuckinglutely.
Toxic positivity leads to omnipresent, convoluted negativity. Just feel what’s there. Let the thoughts run their course.
Of course, actually discovering that this is viable is kindof a dice throw of readiness. But at least if you don’t have the necessary experience, you live the necessary experience.
I wish someone shown this to my parents at any point in their lives! Haha! :D
At least I’m good at acting! Haha!
80s america excelled at this. It was the Atheist version of prosperity gospel
The law of attraction seemed to be pretty big in the 2000s with What The Bleep Do We Know? and The Secret. That’s just toxic positivity wearing a New Age mantle.
Getting a sense of deja vu from this post
Can you do one for the opposite? My SO always says I’m pessimistic but I think I’m just realistic. I expect the worse and hope for the best. Anything other than a worst case scenario is a pleasant scenario.
The expectation you describe is the literal definition of pessimism.
It could be. I just don’t feel that way. I feel like I’m always happier because the outcome is seldom the worst. Doesn’t pessimistic thinking usually make for depressed people?
There are different levels of depression.
Huh, I always heard “hope for the best, plan for the worse”. Which I think is a better strategy to handling the inevitable bad.
Beginning vs end of inside out 1
