Negativity vs. Positivity

In my last few posts (on this blog and my previous ones) I have noticed that I tend to write about negative things. I have already realized that I usually tend to lean toward the negative side of things. A Pessimist, if you will. Now I know that this is not a good way to live one's life if one wants to be happy and I trying to work on it (you know turning that frown upside down). Anyway the point of this post is to give some insight into what I see in the negative side of things. Also, I pretty much know that anyone who reads will disagree with my way of thinking but this is me.

I tend to be a little more worldly than spiritual (another fault I am working on). In the "real world" most things don't always work out. Now I still love all the chick flicks where the guy and girl always get together and live happily ever after. Those are my fantasy films. But I tend to more interested in the films that portray problems that everyday people deal with and of course to make a movie interesting there must be some sort of villain and hero. The villain can be anyone or anything. Something that delays our protaganist to his/her goal.

I guess I am sort of a drama queen. I don't really like to be in the middle of drama but I like to know about it and watch it unfold. The villain to me is always so much more interesting to me than the martyr or hero. How did the villain become so evil? What tragedy, if any, led him/her down this path? In all of the Disney movies, though I loved all the songs, my favorites were always the ones sung by villains. They were so much more emotionally charged for me. Or even Darth Vader's theme music anytime he appears on the screen. It just causes more emotion than the triumphant stuff. Though that is good too.

Even though most people may say they don't like negativity. I believe most people are drawn to it. That's why there are traffic jams when an accident has occurred even though it is off to the side of the road and shouldn't be causing a problem. People are slowing down to take a look.

I once got into an arguement with my roommate that a movie could never be interesting if everyone was happy. There must always be a trial. Sure you can still be happy even with trials in your life but you are not particularly happy to be going through that trial. Happiness can be boring. I will notice when a couple is in a relationship which seems to be happy but I only ever hear negative things from either person about the other. I know that they are still happy and maintaining a relationship is hard. So why do they only speak about the fights and arugments and not the cute little things that they do for each other? I think it is because we believe that the negative things are more interesting and it also means that something may need to be done. Action must be taken. We all want to be heroes in some way or other but how can we portray that quality if all is right with the world.

So I guess that is why I am drawn to negative things or mostly write about the negative things in my life. To find some purpose and to create some action. Most times the actions that needs to be taken is by me for myself so just putting it out there helps me to look at it better.

But I'll try to write about postive things too.