Why the Negative, or the Shocking is winning over the Positive and Uplifting?
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Best to: View Large and On Black
Have you ever wondered how come we humans react so much more, and with so much more passion to the negative or shocking news than to the positive and uplifting? What is it that makes us crave for the worst instead of the best? Because of it – I feel so repelled by people that are using their negativity to spread it around as some kind of disease, a virus of hate… And for sometime now I am ending relationships with anyone who is spreading negativity and bad feelings around. As I wish NOT to be “sickened” by them, and help spread unknowingly perhaps, this virus.
No matter what I do, or am trying to do however, these folks do seem to thrive and go on with whatever they are trying to achieve. Take as example the blog review about “Totallly-Useless” that was posted today on BlogCatalog.com:
Robert Said:
The word philosophy is from the Greek..philo love Sophia wisdom. A lover of wisdom or more to the point a searcher for absolute truths. You cannot have a personal philosophy only a personal viewpoint, as absolute truths are not personal by definition.
Robert UK
Rating: 1 | Posted: Wednesday August 20th, 2008 at 04:06 | Report This Comment
This “Robert UK” figure did not even have a blog submitted on BlogCatalog, and yet, he came there and trashed with his “rating of a mere 1″ this blog.
Besides, who is he, this anonymous Robert UK, to come to tell me that there is no such thing as a “personal philosophy” but only a “personal view point?” And is it not that on my own blog I can call things as I decide to call them? And having a “personal philosophy” is very much part of it… No matter what such Robert’s of UK decide to rate my blog with
Another example of how the Negative is getting more attention than the Positive are the amounts of people checking for such news stories, and when they find them, be it online, or on TV, or in newspapers, they have no time or attention left for all the positive news stories there. Research has shown time and time again the people feel more alive, and energized when they can react strongly on a negative story than in the same manner to a positive one. How come? Because the negative is feeding us with hormones that make us feel ready to fight, or ready to start a tirade with strong words. The positive on the other hand makes us relax and enjoy whatever we are reading, or hearing, or viewing. When we feel at piece we could easily be alone and feel great. On the other hand – negativity needs company, and makes us search for an audience with which we could share how upset we are. Perhaps we humans need the stress more than we need happiness and bliss. And if this is indeed so, I do refuse to be part of it…
And, than I think that making my point won’t be a problem. Trying to stop myself from elaborating on every possible detail – well, that might be.
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Now I’d love to hear, or shall I say – read, your point of view in regards. Wishing you all a happy and stress free week ahead





































