Negative or Positive ?
 

Are you a negative or a positive person ?

I'm finding myself surrounded by negative people at the moment and I am finding its draggin my own mood down. One particular work colleague I could quite happily throttle at the moment and his negativity or bad vibes has made me find myself withdrawing the amount of contact I have with this person. He's really getting on my nerves, he was going camping with his family this weekend and before he went out the door on Thursday somebody wished him a good weekend and all he did was moan about it and listed off all the stuff he thought was gonig to go wrong...

When stuff goes wrong do you moan about it, or do you look for the positives in a given situation.

Does being negative towards life mean that because you've looked for the worst in a situation that you'll inevitably find the worst and what you are planning on doing or are doing will then go FUBAR.

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I'm negative about myself, but I am positive about everything else in the world. I assume everyone to be alright until I see otherwise (this might be right away, or in a few years time...). I find something to make me happy each day (full throttle through the brief tunnels on my way home!!!!) and I talk to everyone with a smile and try and make jokes. This morning I noticed a bus bent the offside mirror of a van forward, so I pulled along side, and straightend the mirror for the driver.

The world gets me down sometimes though. Sometimes I feel that very few people around arn't polite or helpfull, or too obsessed with themselves to notice others.

I'm glad I have maria, my good friends and the people of the .org

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are you being positive or negative about the people around you at the moment?

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i am 90% negative.

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Tricky. people have said i'm negative before now but its only cos i look at the whole picture sometimes and not just the nice bits thru rose tinted glasses.
however i'd say i have a fairly positive outlook most of the time.
Sometimes seeing the negatives can prepare you for them btu i guess you're right that sometime all you're doing is creating your own destiny and filling it with negative vibes.

thankfully ive not had that in the workplace and i know its so easy to say "ignore him" so i'm not gonna say that.

Edit: I agree with A* too, i do try to say some nice words or do nice deeds for total stragners daily cos it makes me happy and hopefull gives the the incentive to do the same sone day.

Reently jumped off the bike to help a guy push his broken down car out the road. Guy was all by himself, cars behind beeping and being generally rude to him and pedestrians just walking by.
He was so suprised by me he didn't know what to say apart from "i'd never have expected a biker to help push"

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I'm pretty positive...I know I'll be rich, find a decent lass, and the bike will be de-restricted sooner or later! :)

Nothing to be particularly negative about really - I'm watered, fed, warm and rested...everything an animal needs!

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Im usually 100% positive, but have been very -tive of late

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Hurting people give off hurt. Sounds like this guy in your work is depressed and/or stressed.
Try to protect yourself from his negativity. Smile more...... go out on your sv!!!;)

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I'm trying to be postive and encouraging towards him and I always try to give a positive answer to any question or situation he asks me about... I'm finding it leaves me feeling drained and TBH at the moment I'm doing my best to ignore him.

Its been going on for ages, he always finds something to moan about, he just seems like he's never happy, but perhaps its because he's not...

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Im mixed...

I can moan a lot but i get on with it and put up.

other times people question why and how after so much I am not in an institute.