You Can Choose to See the Dark or Seek the Light

The decision is yours.

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Everywhere you turn, there’s doom and gloom. All across social media, new reports, conversations with friends and family, it’s like a cloud constantly hovering above you.

None of this is normal. The sense of fear, uncertainty, and hopelessness dominating it all? This is not normal.

Then, to complicate matters, finding the balance between knowledge and being informed versus oversharing and being inundated is always challenging. You can’t ignore what’s happening, wear blinders, and pretend this isn’t happening. Neither can you give it all of your focus and attention without making yourself utterly miserable.

Moment to moment, whenever you are consciously aware, you can choose to see the dark or seek the light.

The argument to be For rather than Against

In my home state, there’s a contentious race for governor going on. The thing is, I don’t think it would be so contentious were it not for how both sides are approaching it. Both are on the attack, each telling you why you should be against the other. Yet, because of the focus on standing against, the obvious problem candidate has traction.