Why is it so easy think negatively?

[queenish_]

I've realized that it actually takes effort to think positively like we have to train our minds into it but we don't even have to try to think negatively, why is it like that?

[Sonorous]

Kinda reminds me of what Alan Watts says about why we resist change.

My opinion: Some reasons can be more justified than others. Like it could be beneficial to resist some change if it keeps everyone safe, happy, etc.

But when you take morality out of it, it's really just us being confronted with patterns that we can interpret as a bad thing. So we resist it. We resist the change.

And as you said, it takes energy to stay positive. And it takes a lot of energy to stay alive! We live in a world where pleasure can be short-lived &/or scarce, yet there's always an abundance of suffering. A place where it's not so uncommon for people's lives to turn into nightmares.

Doesn't help that everyone ends in death. And we often view that as a bad thing. It's hard not to! So life can easily tear apart any hope. Making it harder for people to value positive things very highly, which affects their beliefs > motivations > thoughts > behavior.

[Sonorous]

Here's the Alan Watts video if you're interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqHVB6bDWzg

[Sonorous]

scratch off the "beliefs," we get our values from our beliefs. I meant to just put motivations > thoughts > behaviors

[Paulychicago10]

I ask the same thing. I made a pretty nice looking cutting board as a prize for a organization im part of in my college. I asked one of the directors to put it out there and the way to win it was to, write a short essay on your positive experiences you had this year either for the college itself, or with the organization. Out of 130+ students, guess how many students wrote in?

[queenish_]

35🤷🏾‍♀️

[Paulychicago10]

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[queenish_]

😶oh that's actually sad

[Paulychicago10]

I was pretty pissed. Like all I wanted was for new students coming in to see what positive things they can get from being here. Or going there. Pretty shitty in my opinion. I had one student say they were gonna write one essay for it, then begged I just give it to her. I said you have to share your experiences with others. She never wrote it.

[yofuknutz]

Seriously now I'm depressed

[Azura_88]

Destruction is very easy but creating takes time.
No matter how complicated and best recipe you cook, it will take 5 seconds to smash and ruin it, making it inedible.
That's why this world is a tough place to live. No matter how successful you become, you can be replaced or kicked out if you made few wrong moves to piss everyone off. But it takes YEARS OR MONTHS to prove yourself.

[yofuknutz]

is the ultimate tragedy of life and that's what causes wasted Talent

[This_is_my_username]

Because it's more believable than thinking positively. I assume!

[yofuknutz]

It is what it is I suppose

[Joshua0213]

Id say it depends on how you grew up partly at least. Its hard for me to think negatively but its probably cause of who I've been around my whole life

[Anonymous]

You have to cover all your bases before you soar High.

[zohs345]

Because negative thoughts are a human nature

[Anonymous]

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