Don’t feed negativity
Don’t even give it scraps
Stay focused
Even in misery
And doubt
Don’t put out the cat
Instead put negativity out
Then close the door
Lock it
Chain it
Whatever you do,
Don’t let it back in
Even if it begs
On the step
Outside
And complains of
Hunger and thirst
And moans gently
Every hour
On the hour
Don’t even think
About the creature
You threw out
As it frantically claws at your panes.
Eventually, it will give up
And move on.
And wander through dry, arid places
And latch onto
To another
Who is open
And addicted
To the pain
As you once were
Let them feed it.
For they’ll know
Soon enough
If it fits in
With their life
And can sleep on their hearth
By the fire
Warming itself
And getting
Lots of treats
For being bad.
There’s no snug den
For it here anymore
Don’t Feed Negativity.
Things In My Head 
When we take tests and it comes back neagative Negativity is good
but when we speak on other subjects be neative is bad and in that case Negativity is bad
but Negativity can be objective or subjective
the former is good, the latter is bad.
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Thank you!
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correction: ‘being negative is bad’ (second line)
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and thank you as well!
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My negativity is part of me, just like my positivity.
I ain’t gonna lock it out and leave it unfed until it chews through the door and comes for the main course.
I like to be complete.
A complete what is another topic.
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If you starve it and it chews through the door, it might eat you. So yeah, I understand why you might want to give it snacks now and again. Keep it satiated.
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It’s not just that.
There’s heaps of self-help gurus out there flogging positive self-affirmation as a way to ‘achieve your goals’. But while positive affirmation can give a short term sugar rush to confidence and team bonding it’s notoriously brittle. And like all such things, the come down leaves you in a worse place than where you started. Hence Willy Loman in Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
Instead of saying things like “I’m a good person” or “I’m not a good person”, try asking yourself deeply and sincerely “Am I a good person?”. Accept both the bad and the good in the answers you find.
The truth is we’re all complex, composite beings, made up of both the positive and the negative. You can deny parts of yourself you find distasteful – often by projecting it onto others – but you can’t sustain it. The more ‘dark self’ you cast out the darker your surroundings become. The more light you project on the outer, the darker the inner becomes by comparison.
There’s no light without darkness. No good without bad. Don’t deform yourself by rejecting one and over-inflating the other. When you’ve learned to accept everything about yourself you’ll find it much easier to accept others and anything the world throws at you.
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Yin and yang, dark and light, good and evil. That balance is essential but sometimes, the dark side of the force is top heavy in your life and that can lead to suicide, or a person who is unable to function on an every day basis. I suppose, if we can refrain from being people pleasers, we won’t go far wrong, but it’s easier said than done.
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In my personal experience it’s not the dark that leads to suicidality, it’s the ultimately futile attempts to lock it out.
And there’s no balance. Just psychic allostasis, which makes life easier to bear but also makes it pretty boring.
So to again draw on my personal experience:
Since my late teens, when I was a lying, thieving junkie, I’ve been on a personal journey to make myself more truthful and honest. But to do so I have had to make myself more aware of my lies and dishonesty. So from my own perspective the balance between my honesty and dishonesty remains the same. The more honest I become the more of my dishonesty is revealed to me, In the meantime others seem to become increasingly dishonest as my own viewpoint shifts towards the ever receding mirage of honesty,
That’s the beauty of Taoism. The yin and yang are *always* in balance. It’s you that can be out of balance with them by pushing or resisting the flow, Bend like the green reed or you’ll break like the dry stick. Wu wei is the only Way,
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Wise words.
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