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Find The Good In Yourself First
You are a good, worthy, and deserving person.
The world appears — on many levels — to be going truly mad.
Every week, writing about positivity, I always manage to find something to write about. But that doesn’t mean it’s not especially challenging. Looking at the outside picture of the world at present is deeply frustrating, distressing, and too close a look can be depressing.
Despite my attempts to spend less time on social media — a serious harbinger of negativity — I still get swept up by it. Before I know it, an innocent glance at FB to see what my friends are doing winds up as a trip down a rabbit hole of unfortunate happenings, bad players, and lots of other negatives.
It’s so easy to get overwhelmed. And it begs the question — how do you find the good in a world presented as terrible and negative as ours all too often seems to be?
After a little soul-searching, I have an answer:
Find the good in yourself, first.
From the depths to the surface
Let’s clear something up right off the bat. You are, at your core, a good person.
The only way that this is untrue is if you willfully, knowingly do things to hurt or harm others. If you have…