We never realize how much our words actually mean until we lay them on a person that takes those few syllables to heart. Positive words can do so much good when someone is willing to listen, while negative words seem to cut through all positivity and strike at a person's very soul. It takes ten times as many positive words to overcome the negative aspect and this is all because of how we are trained from childhood.
Gossip. The one aspect of life that we could all do without but it is and will continue to be the start of conversations all over the world. Assumptions only add to that spinning snowball creating something larger than and more negative. It is amazing how something so small as an assumption can lead to the destruction of someone's self esteem. Whether or not this gossip is true is of no concern and the words will continue to be passed from one person to the next without giving a single thought as to how it might affect the subject of discussion. Why do we do this to each other?
Positive actions, words, and thoughts are becoming the new currency of this world. With each passing day, these things become less relevant to the modern day person and they are slowly beginning to disappear. The reason I call this a new currency is simple. The words of a positive person WILL change lives for the better. A positive person becomes a light to those that only see darkness and those that live in the negative will unknowingly begin to change because of the simple, small, but enormously positive words of one person.
The world that we have created tends to focus on the negative and for the most part, those people caught up in negativity don't even realize that they are swimming in this black hole that drains their will and hope. If they would only stop saying "I can't do that" once and reconsider, the world around them would change. All of a sudden, they would be able focus more on the one simple reason why "I can" instead of the fifty million reasons that they can't. The light of hope would become unsheathed and for once, dreams would be possible. Not because an opportunity opened up, but because they found a way to get up off of ground and continue to push, no matter how many times they are bombarded with negative words and actions of others.
Take the time to consider all the choices that you made today. How many times did you decide "I can't" over "I can"? How many times did you make a choice solely on the idea that others might not choose the same as you? We live in a world of conformity but what we don't know is that those that conform never reach true success. Only those that step outside of their own comfort zone, those that stand up and push back when someone says "it will never work" or "you just can't do that", will ever reach true success. Make a change in your own life. Preach positivity to yourself as well as those around you. You will find friction and resistance, but eventually all those that oppose you will fall to the wayside or fall in behind you. The idea is to live for yourself, not for everyone else. Build your own dream and don't fall into the trap of working to build someone else's. If you don't have a dream and a plan, then you unconsciously allow others to make your plan for you and trust me when I say that it isn't that great.
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