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Don’t Let Them Win By Making You Negative
Find and/or create positivity in the face of ongoing insanity.
One of the most distressing things about 2024 coming to an end is what we can expect in 2025. Specifically, the incoming US administration and all the bullshit, fear, and uncertainty they’re bringing to the table.
Even those who gave their support to this insanity are uncertain what it will mean. This is making it increasingly easy to be fearful, distressed, and negative.
There is no telling what will happen. Nobody can predict with any certainty how this will all go down. If you accept that it’s all going to be awful, that everything will suck, and that all the worst-case scenarios will come true, you might as well give up. That’s what soaking in that negativity amounts to.
I am not, in any way, shape, or form, suggesting ignoring what’s happening. There will, without a doubt, be some awful, horrific, terrible shit to come. That, however, is always true in any and every situation. Shit happens. Bad things occur. Life sucks from time to time.
Toxic positivity is all about ignoring this. That’s why toxic positivity is toxic. You can’t just ignore the bad, scary, and negative — because they are, have been, and always will be.
