Do you feel under constant pressure to be positive?
There are a lot of people talking a lot about staying positive, staying motivated, being productive, and what not. But do you think we are over-thinking? Why can’t we focus on being, just being. It is normal to be stressed, normal to be not elated in every single moment. Just normalizing and accepting ourselves for who we are can drive away a lot of stress too.
As I scroll my social media, I read positive quotes. I read inspirational and motivational quotes. I see inspirational videos. A recent video of about a 5 year old girl made me think. She was talking to herself, “I cannot do negative vibes, positive vibes (only)” in a very adorable manner. At first, it made me smile but then it occurred to me, why are we pulling kids at such a young age into all this charade. What are we teaching our kids? Are we teaching them to ignore negative vibes and focus on positive only? Then, we are really teaching them to live only half life. Because like coin, life has two sides, and one doesn’t come without the other. I wouldn’t want my child to know at such a young age about positive or negative vibe. Vibe is a vibe.
Instead, I would teach my kid to recognize and differentiate between vibes and teach them manage all types of vibes.
Do you know how science defines light? Absence of darkness. So, if the concept of darkness vanishes, the purpose of light loses its value. Do you see the correlation?
By focusing too much on what we don’t want, that’s what we end up getting. Then, we see people on social media who are going through a so-called “high” phase, we feel jealous and blame social media to be the source of our depression. We constantly unknowingly compare ourselves to others and put ourselves in this race of being positive.
Are we not putting lot of expectations on ourselves? We cannot be climbing mountains every day. We cannot have a flawless relationship. We cannot have a flawless self.
Why can’t we just be “us” and flow…
himalayaswithin 