Saturday, 15 January 2011

Keeping it simple : Other side of negativm and pessimism

A nasty night it is. Confusion overwhelmed my mind at this moment. A sudden jolt of inconceivable distress is keeping me in an insomniac state. The tranquilizing starry background of the night was brought in contrast of me reaching my tipping point. What mortal element has prompted such unimaginable amount of unease?

A common worldly pursuit, which is money. And worse, I was thrown into negative state by a few incidents.

But I’m too tired to talk about money. So let’s talk about negativism.

Firstly a common mistake is anything but money can prior the success of life and we blindly accept this at the same time we lived on assurance of others validity through a guarantee positivism of life. Basically someone would feel victorious once his opinion and doings are shared equally by others. This exerted a sense of positivism in the earlier mentioned because he or she has finally reached the apex of positivity which was always mentioned as the important element to gain success. A writer reiterated in revealing brilliance, ‘’if you give your negativities enough thought, you may discover that they are in fact the strongest assets in your professional development’’. Positivity is a mere slogan, most of time it appeared on superficial level and presented as annoyance more than inspiring infusion. You may have heard this in the vice versa version but rarely on the negative prior. (The Power of Positive Pessimism)

You need both.

And take your mind a ride in the cloud ‘’success has more equal vision and less prejudice than the positive thinking theory itself’’. Now ride down to earth ‘’your negativity does not possess as much of real destruction as your imagination told you!’’. Why would one walk away from the harmless norm of positive thinking and take the risk of tapping into well of catastrophic negativism and wishing this would in fact provide the inconsistency for greater good? A short moment of private grief is all you need. Do not assume positive negativism as pessimism. But teacher at school told you not. Parents told you never befriend negativism. Society keeps on scandalizing eloquently on the eeriness such reversed thinking carries and put it on shelf to the likes of notorious Hannibal, Hitler and great evil Satan itself and to anything would end up in dumpsite, backyard, graveyard and Mars. Had you ever heard of Herd Mentality? Herd mentality is the tendency to adopt the opinions and follow the behaviors of the majority to feel safer and to avoid conflict. So if majority thinks positivism is the right way, you would follow because your cognition tells you negativism as oppositely would do you no good.

One, two,one,two,jump...

As we go through dozens of decades, our vulnerability resist the temptation of reversed thinking because we fear the butchery would thwart our soul if we unable to perform like others would, another example of herd mentality and thus a sort of very moderate pseudo positivism. At the same time, majorly of us can never take the burden of being believer of lesser believed belief because we like to follows what people do. We believed what most of people choose to look into.

I would like you to be different. Not for the rest of your life because we’re not connected so I don’t care if you willing to change. And I dare to say, you’ve got no balls. But at this short moment, do open up your mind.

What I appreciate most is the striking yet circumspect worldly delivering in the writing of late Chin-Ning Chu. One can easily find calmness and new strength in the midst of sentences in many self development books but not consistency of thinking in sum of everything in a regenerative balance. Traditional thinking stalks and had modern proposition arrested bitchy into total chaotic exhibition of non fruiting revolution. Many people were in greater grief on inability to exhibit pure positivism under any circumstances which lead them into believing themselves as inferior weaklings. The pressure of not being as optimistic like everyone else gradually deliberates them. Losers in term of this understanding find illogical conclusion in their so called inability in survival of modern life. ‘’I was a born loser’’.

Before I proceed, I must say I’m logically pessimistic. In my reversed mindset, I exhibit positive pessimism because I dare to embrace a few taboos. Example, death is sin qua non of every livings thus I find no taboo in expressing the concept of death in public but many especially the conventional Eastern mindsets finds my thinking explained as erratic, immature, grey, and provocative. Human are prone to link darker elements of life to negative objects – pre-understanding jitters. Hunger, sickness, famine, and ultimately , the death of any kind. This doesn’t come in aberrant whisper hinting the trivial of these untimely events onto the survival and existence of human kind. But to accept these concepts will not shed off our empathies and positivism. Another simple example, a recoverable sickness prone to invoke strength and will of living in one’s than those who never suffer. Same goes to poorness. Famine delivers a deadly image of inseparable death but at very same time invoke the timely recovery if allowed conditions reached for new life to ascend. Death has multiple faces, and consistently brings dismay, disarray, discrepancy, and enfeeble the weak mind. Human must learn to embrace the natural law of the creator, has death being the harbinger in bringing many new pages in history. To accept all of above as inescapable procedures in life, we would understand better and walk closer to our maker in astral plane. Nothing is purely white or black, thus nothing is purely true or false.

Back to the earlier column.


Take this flex for example

Counter your trepidation on flexible and creative application of negativity as hopping board to success. This is why positivism is not the only path to success. Negative traits such as jealousy, procrastination, envy and greed are ironically it is great engines to fuel one’s determination and rage in the midst of striking a final goal. Other than active negativism, the contemplation of passive negativism always guaranteed to generate a volley of emotional big bang, often enough to materialize your dream. For example, Alan, you’re a complete loser. Yes I am, and I don’t like what you just said. 90% of us tend to deposit the infernal tantrum instead of putting it on leash. They are either repugnant or they feel unwise to match these uncivilized beasts on verbal disputes or they enjoy the core of these repulsive motivation, a classical exhibition of positive negativism. 10% of humankind would rebuke in dynamically ¼ seconds as their emotions bellow. For those who driven by positive negativism, he or she will find these sarcasm and complications a great energy to unfold their great success. The greatest and sweetest revenge is to live ahead, better and more prosperous. Same goes to love matter, social complexes and many more uncharted issues. But still it is my personal thought, and not to be objected to any kind of situation. Be flexible.

Often I said creative person are greatest manipulator of life. Successful people can be ironically creative, and creative people imbued with right dose of instinctive negativism to dazzle in brilliance prominence will instantly touch the zenith in their field of choice because negativism can initiate unpredicted bloom of energies fitly supported alternately by inconsistencies which will be discussed later on. Well multiple factors do affect, since life is not formulated linearly by a single core quantum perfection so why creativity can only be the offspring of positive mind? I’m breaking the depth which conventional education system dares not to surpass. Even life is a product of complete whacky accidents. Further, we hardly acknowledge our inadequacies and often we become our own law maker and lawbreaker! And we are the source of our own misery! So give ourselves a little room to fail. Being in a moderate grief to diverse degrees is equivalent to temporary mental hibernation because being positive all the time is quite exhausting. That if you know what I mean.

Actions speak louder than words, and pen is sharper than sword. If action is equal to mighty sword and word is equal to elegant pen, then this sentence contained purely of ambivalence and inconsistencies. Even words can sublime into sarcastic intoxicated mist that would rip from innards with decaying impulse. A million moments but one, you may tend to have both – consistency and inconsistency, Ying and Yang in your action.

Consistency is considered positive value in our current universe while inconsistency conquers the opposite. Inconsistency is a unique spectacle beholds the fundamental survival law in particular of wildest realm on earth. Inconsistent predatory is an effective primal mechanism which still and is practiced by human in their primordial wakes and particularly a common practice in business, trades and ultimately politics over ages to keep enemies on toes. The creation of all beings enjoyed a groundbreaking acceleration of diversity, at the hand of superb hardware named inconsistency and evolution or even adaptive radiation in work. Nature itself is an orchestra of critical ambivalence. The warm glow of ember chromed firefly, and the juggernaut body span of the gentle blue whales; eye catching patterns of intricately decorated monarch butterflies’ wings down to the ascending rainbow spectral plumage in thousand of thousands avian species marked the enormous variance to explore in different terrestrial wonders in every continents on earth realm which also a marvelous work of nature’s inconsistent mood .The simplicities and complicacies in the design of flora and fauna from anatomy to superficial configurations are greatest evidence of inconsistent chemical reaction which still perplex great minds in sciences in creation timeline. From Mother Nature behest, we extract the similar paradigm and apply these essences onto our designs,culture, politics and civilization.

Now you see, originally inconsistency was a negative trait at moral’s ground zero but the shifting of point of view can somehow make believe nothing is purely black or white, as long we willing to accept the fact nothing is dominantly dominant although I had not burdened by the fact I’m being a positive negativist. Thus positivism can be alleged as the negative of the antithesis, and can be a great nuisance to thrive in pure positivism if the all great reason to be positive is of mass fallacies.

Ok, what about insecurity?

Fear is not an interpretation of inferiority, understand the dual nature

Borrowed from the late Ching-Ning Chu’s context, ‘only fools and saints are absolutely secure about themselves. The rest of the world is faking security to a certain degrees, and some are better fakers than the others’. Phew. She has the point. Realism points out this incredible truth. Many of us would agree nothing is more vital than to exhibit a sense of confidence in front of others. Somehow from a little loophole in this noble feature, I find a superimposed fraud in these ignored fools who make believe their blissful denials on a certain matter of truth are their savior. Knowing our own weakness and feel vulnerable makes us much more perceptive of current circumstances based on a simple fear theory in pediatric dentistry I studied lately. Child who understands and submits to their fear is subconsciously much more aware of true danger, and I dare to say these children are instinctively incremental on regard of wellbeing awareness. To escape fear by plasticize a fake security on top of the aspect of being positive noble has somehow met its dead end.

On top of everything, human are prone to conduct common faults in our thought. Earlier I mentioned Herd Mentality, and I relate it to my arguments. Positivism is off massive crowd cry, not because it is of natures intend. To invoke one’s self true nature can be a much more realistic assistance to one’s victor in life. And the mentioned true nature consisted of both an adequate dosage of positivism and negativism to assist a healthy and comprehensive mental growth because life is not a linear graph.

Herd Mentality

I’m keeping my point of view as simple (seriously I don’t think I’ve written in simplicity) as possible. So I shall stop here.

After all the standard of judging negativity are of artificial human prejudice and instinct. 90% of population obsessed with optimism often live in world of made believe. Negativism is metaphoric identity to of Christianity betrayer Judas, in invoke of true Jesus, Judas draped the mantle of martyrdom and lay in the flame of all wrongdoings in the eyes over pages in history. It is perfectly wrong to have either in complete dominance in the turbulent personal growth span but indeed both are of equal importance.

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