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What if Positivity is a Choice of Attitude — Not A Cure-All?
Toxic positivity ruins positivity’s true power to better your life.
Positivity, in its truest, most genuine form, is a good and healthy attitude. It sparks productivity, creativity, and can be part of an overall sense of wellbeing.
In and of itself, positivity is a constructive, good force for living without fear and combating artificial lack, scarcity, and the like.
Unfortunately, genuine positivity is not the only form. Many have emphasized toxic positivity over the genuine article.
Toxic positivity has been built off the idea of the power of positive thinking. It takes a healthy, constructive notion to an extreme. This is done by suggesting that you be only positive in how you think and feel — to the exclusion of all negatives. Toxic positivity puts on blinders to negativity and all bad things in the world around you.
This is utterly and completely unrealistic. Life is a paradox. There will always be opposite extremes. You can’t avoid, deny, neglect, or wear blinders to the negatives of the world.
Genuine positivity, in fact, is often created reactively or proactively regarding a negative event or happening.
