positive thinking.

Subject: positive thinking.
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kaivyn2 29.01.16 - 06:17pm
is it really a good idea to force yourself into thinking positively at the expense of reality.i know we should always have some hope but preaching to me about positive thinking is just sheer noise. * +

ladibud 29.01.16 - 06:21pm
yeah i don't believe in foolin myself, negativity will drag u down imo, but being overly positive is just silly too, be realistic but not pwessimistic. * +

iilmadme 29.01.16 - 06:22pm
it depends on whether being unrealistic is getting in the way of changes u should be making,facts u should be facing up to.otherwise what harm can it do? * +

shadow27 29.01.16 - 06:40pm
When I was about 10 or 11 I was sat in bed reading when I had this crazy thought - what if I got to meet the author of the book, what questions would I ask him? I smiled to myself as I ran it through my head.

The very next day, I s**t you not, my English teacher grabs me and a girl from a year higher than me. She tells me we are going to the centennial at Dromkeen (a writers retreat) there will be a bunch of famous Australian authors there. I must have sounded like a weirdo saying how I knew it was going to happen. Only two students from every school would be going.

I got to meet Graeme Base (Animalia - the book I'd been reading that night) and Paul Jennings was in that same room grinning away (he wrote the short stories that turned into Round the Twist).

So you know what, fk it! Be unrealistic, have dreams, imagine things.. * +

rose01 29.01.16 - 06:50pm
The other day i dreamt that the street was flooded and i was like wtf? And when i woke up and stepped into the bathroom..it was flooded! A tap had been left open and there was some blockage in the wat-u-call-it- from where the water goes down.. so it was flooded and i was like wtf? Whats the connection between the dream and reality * +

brainsik 29.01.16 - 06:50pm
Sometimes things you consider unrealistic aren't necessarily as far out as you think they are. My life has change drastically since I stopped being so pessimistic. It's not about believing you are going to become a millionaire over night but rather stopping a negative outlook towards life and recognising the good in every crappy situation. * +

rose01 29.01.16 - 06:51pm

@ shadow27 - 29.01.16 - 06:40pm
When I was about 10 or 11 I was sat in bed reading when I had this crazy thought - what if I got to meet the author of the book, what questions would I ask him? I smiled to myself as I ran it through my head.

The very next day, I s**t you not, my English teacher grabs me and a girl from a year higher than me. She tells me we are going to the centennial at Dromkeen (a writers retreat) there will be a bunch of famous Australian authors there. I must have sounded like a weirdo saying how I knew it was going to happen. Only two students from every school would be going.

I got to meet Graeme Base (Animalia - the book I'd been reading that night) and Paul Jennings was in that same room grinning away (he wrote the short stories that turned into Round the Twist).

So you know what, fk it! Be unrealistic, have dreams, imagine things..

Great shadow.. how lucky to have been chosen to meet them! * +

shadow27 29.01.16 - 06:56pm

@ brainsik - 29.01.16 - 06:50pm
Sometimes things you consider unrealistic aren't necessarily as far out as you think they are. My life has change drastically since I stopped being so pessimistic. It's not about believing you are going to become a millionaire over night but rather stopping a negative outlook towards life and recognising the good in every crappy situation.

Exactly, what I think is that if you are backed into a corner then there is a reason you are there. A lesson to be learned. It could be a matter of figuring out where your strength or weakness lies. * +