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In the negative stronghold, the chief bird wanted more positive and I wrote something about it

It's long
Thanks for reading dear Fedis ❤️
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I am a very positive person and am sometimes lovingly made fun of for it

I wonder if we are fooling ourselves to look for positivity in a very negative world

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si_irini

The harsh, cold and loveless world that we encounter every day is not something we can take much positivity from and an important and existential question is whether we can really pass on positivity if we don't encounter it at all

How can you pass something on to others if you can't feel it yourself?
How to smile when you are “spat on”?

The climate we have been facing for far too long is always geared towards negativity

2/?

It is not love that is seen as important and progressing but hate, negativity and nastiness

If you take some platforms as an example of what is really progressing, what is popular and what is read and followed, unfortunately these are often accounts that are not blessed with an abundance of love and positivity

Instead of logging in to get away from everyday life and its stresses, other things happen...

3/?

The negative sides of life tend to hit us like a bomb
Sides that we have known for a long time, because we live them every day

The search for unity often leads to alienation

We are then torn by the question of what an appropriate reaction might be

A futile effort then a struggle that is doomed to failure and this before it has even begun

4/?

One thing I don't advocate at all is being blind and ignorant to the problems we have

You should always know what is happening around you at all times

The question is, at what price do you tell the world?

Do I opt for a valuable, insightful, enlightening and naturally friendly exchange or do I take the supposedly easier route, which usually brings success?

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Do I post my opinion maliciously, slanderously and with a pinch of agitation?
Knowing full well that such posts often have a strong reach

This fight is not a just fight
It never was and, looking at history and learning from it, it never will be

Giving up should never be an option despite everything

The light must not succumb to the dark

6/?

The search and creation of a brighter world should actually be a goal for everyone

But it never was and never will be

Even this realization is important

We only bring about change through this very realization

So if you're supposed to be more positive on social media, is it really going to happen?
Does everyone really want that?

Do we perhaps want to escape our artificial and fake smiles of everyday life and then let out our frustration properly?

7/?

Is perhaps the purpose of social media not to be social, but to satisfy people's desire for antisocial behavior and then help them not to become brutes in real life?

Are we depriving people of a bastion of escape from the “wrong” world we all live in, throwing all the pent-up evil onto many who should not be the culprits and not the ones who suffer

8/?

The pursuit of more positivity also has a dark side and this can be found in all of us

Because anyone who is blessed with too much kindness and positivity these days is considered stupid, naive and uneducated
and this is exactly where it begins and ends

Since almost nobody wants to be seen as stupid, naive and uneducated, many of us choose the dark side

And yes, for me this is the dark side

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I personally don't mind being called that, I have my opinion and see only one hope, the pursuit of positive behavior and the giving of love

I lose every day
and will do so again and again, no matter where, and it is precisely this realization that liberates me

I also have reservations about what behavior is right towards whom and everyone should too

No, of course you can't always be positive and loving and you should never be hypocritical anyway

10/?

But there are people you meet with whom you can do wonders with a less hateful face and the same applies to social media

So look around and realize for yourself what you want to see, not only on social media but also in real life and act accordingly

A nice answer, a chat that might be going on here that makes you feel good, if that's what you want then work towards it

11/?

If you want to go off on a tangent because you can't in real life, then do so, but remember that it's not a malicious troll or a bot that reads your stuff every time, but a person with feelings

12/?

According to the Federal Statistical Office (Germany), there were 10304 suicides in Germany in 2023, 22 of which were younger than 15

No, of course there's no connection, that's not what I meant to say
But has anyone ever asked themselves why people take this step?

Most of us probably not

13/?

Why would anyone in this self-centered and negative world want to understand?

These people were just weak and couldn't fight

For me a wrong and downright fatal view, but a view that is held by too many

14/?

If the global climate continues to be so negative, divisive and inflammatory, we must also ask ourselves what kind of world we are placing our children in, because they too could break and despair of this world and it doesn't matter how many there will be

Every person is important and could contribute to a better world, if they are not even born or die under whatever circumstances, we have put a stop to the future that is not yet written.

15/?

I often hear and read that we should have more children for so many different reasons, many of them incredibly important, but I also understand everyone who, when looking around the world, often considers it not very worth living in and decides not to have children

Of course, not everyone makes the world a better and more positive place, but where do you get the knowledge if you are deprived of the opportunity?

16/?

In the end, no matter what direction you take, you can change it, for whatever reason

Well, as we all know, hope always dies last and the pursuit of more goodness, love and positivity in everyone's life should be seen for what it really is, simply a wonderful and desirable thing

17/?

Even if we can't always be positive and don't have to be, we should have a safe space, a person with whom we can “misbehave” without fear of consequences, where all the frustration can be unloaded without harming anyone

Only when the scales are reasonably even for all of us, only then does the future have a chance to be brighter for everyone

Always questions everything

Always looking for answers

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But the focus should be on doing something positive with it

Do not seek and share all the evil of this world, because then the darkness will eventually swallow everyone up

And trapped in this morass, getting out is almost impossible

Search and find what can make everyone's life brighter
This not only enriches the lives of others but also yours

19/?

Even though I hear and read again and again that hate and agitation are objected to everywhere, I often see one thing that love and positivity are pushed into the dark

Losing and giving up
Marked by sadness

Then you stand there, with the sun in your heart before the iron gates of hell, alone, challenging an enemy whose superiority knows no mercy

The strong against the weak

The majority against the minority

Hatred against love

The negative against the positive

20/?

Things are seen as weaknesses that don't necessarily have to be

You can turn a weakness into an outstanding strength

And recognizing this is an unparalleled strength

One thought remains....

Love has always triumphed after all
the supposedly weaker person has always managed to triumph
to make something his strength
what the “evil” overlooked
to then emerge victorious

21/?

Only those who truly carry the brightness within them understand this often hopeless struggle and yet never give up, firmly clutching the brightness and the warmth associated with it and never giving up

One of my most beautiful realizations is then also a very important one and a confirmation of my theories, which in turn results in further texts and inspiration for new texts

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