You can't always be positive. In reality if you were positive all of the time, how could people honestly accept the truth of your character? They couldn't.
Life is incredibly balanced. So to be truly positive you really have to experience substantial negatives as well. That's simply the way the world works. As Carl Jung once said, "The brighter the light the darker the shadow." I think that really applies here as well.
In my life, I try and keep my writing pretty positive and upbeat because I truly am out in this world to help others love profoundly and perhaps, just maybe, something I talk of will help someone bring some light into their heart. For years I've been ready to pull a lesson or learning point out of even the worst eventualities to help provoke thought in others. But what I would like to share with you is that I am not constantly positive. In reality I don't ever force myself to be because that only creates inauthenticity.
I have awfully dark moments and days sometimes. Actually the more and more I deeply love with everything I have, the more deeply I feel discomfort, hurt, loss, and everything else that will make your hands shake when it comes about. I feel those things now more than I ever have before. The liquefying of a cold heart so many years ago has exposed it to be naked, exposed, and gives it the capability to feel everything intensely.
So sometimes, writing something that's optimistic, is really me fighting as firmly as I can to keep a positive perspective on life. In reality, some days are a lot tougher than others. Some days, I feel just like I can just barely breath.
Across the years, I've been taught to express these things through my art and pour myself out through my writing and I am so fortunate to have that. So if you are wrestling, just know, I struggle too.
I struggle hard. And with that, I love hard.
Life is incredibly balanced. So to be truly positive you really have to experience substantial negatives as well. That's simply the way the world works. As Carl Jung once said, "The brighter the light the darker the shadow." I think that really applies here as well.
In my life, I try and keep my writing pretty positive and upbeat because I truly am out in this world to help others love profoundly and perhaps, just maybe, something I talk of will help someone bring some light into their heart. For years I've been ready to pull a lesson or learning point out of even the worst eventualities to help provoke thought in others. But what I would like to share with you is that I am not constantly positive. In reality I don't ever force myself to be because that only creates inauthenticity.
I have awfully dark moments and days sometimes. Actually the more and more I deeply love with everything I have, the more deeply I feel discomfort, hurt, loss, and everything else that will make your hands shake when it comes about. I feel those things now more than I ever have before. The liquefying of a cold heart so many years ago has exposed it to be naked, exposed, and gives it the capability to feel everything intensely.
So sometimes, writing something that's optimistic, is really me fighting as firmly as I can to keep a positive perspective on life. In reality, some days are a lot tougher than others. Some days, I feel just like I can just barely breath.
Across the years, I've been taught to express these things through my art and pour myself out through my writing and I am so fortunate to have that. So if you are wrestling, just know, I struggle too.
I struggle hard. And with that, I love hard.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author of The Words Of Encouragement, a website dedicated to bringing the best quotes, motivational content on the web, and blogs all to one place. Going through a rough patch in life? I put together some quotes about death to help you if you are suffering through the loss of a loved one.
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