your attitude will change your life...

I'm still dumbfounded by people harboring such negative attitudes or outlooks on life...Why?

I'd like to ask those people "Does it really help you sleep at night to be so bitter and angry?" But I'm not because all I'd get would be a negative response like, "I'll do, feel, and say what I want"...mmmkay. whatever. Suit yourself, Negative Nancy!

So it really bothers me to see people try to feed off others' depression or misery. Is Misery that lonely? That insanely selfish? There is a way to empathize with others rather than make them dwell more on their agony.

Here's a scenario: I see a facebook post about someone believing they don't have it as "good" as what it may seem. I have to comment that as long as you are healthy and you're children are healthy what more can you ask for, right? I knew this person needed an uplifting message, therefore I wanted to be as optimistic as possible and provide a message with less dread. But I was interjected by another commenter that it wasn't good enough...*sigh*

Here's my take on it: this world is so full of UGLY. It's everywhere, you see it, you hear it, you smell it, you breathe it and you live it on a daily basis. We wake up to bad news on TV. We read about it on the interwebs and in the newspapers. There's no hiding it. It's real.

Now, does that mean we have to live and base our lives on the ugly that surrounds us? Why not take a different perspective and count our blessings? Why not live life while we are still alive and breathing? I see it as not taking our health for granted. Taking advantage of the blessings given to us rather than being ungrateful and throwing it back to the Creator. "Thanks but no thanks, God. You can have your stinking blessings back!" What kind of people would do that? We can either be grateful for what we have now, whether we are here or there, or don't be grateful at all. How would life be like for us then if we decide to take that route? Better? I disagree.

Yes, life can suck and we've all been there and done that.  We can either choose to live it that way or choose to see the good in what we've got. We all know that life is always changing, every second, every minute. Today may suck, but tomorrow may be better or vice versa.  Someone else did comment on that post and said it best when he said, "Just because life isn't perfect, doesn't mean it's bad." It really doesn't have to be. Your attitude has the ability to change your life if you allow it.