Why So Negative?

Dear internet goers,

WE HAVE A PROBLEM. I REPEAT, WE HAVE A PROBLEM.

So my last post, if you haven't read it (and you really don't need to if you haven't) was a 2 AM rant full of depressing, negative nastiness. Doesn't really fit with my theme here, does it?
Well guess what? That post has the most views of any of my posts (well except for one, but that doesn't count because it was for a class so obviously a lot of my classmates read it), which means those negative thoughts are the kind of thing people on the interwebs are looking for the most.

You know, if I really wanted to have a popular blog, I could just post a whole lot of negative, unhappy, yucky stuff like my last post. People seem to love that (why that is is completely beyond me). But ya know what I'm here for? I want to try to make peoples' days a tad brighter when, or if, they find this blog.

Now it's okay to have nasty feelings and be sad and whatnot. Heck, that's just a part of life! Everyone has crappy days. And crappy days seem even worse at 2 AM. But that's not really the point. The point is that our society today is far too focused on the unfortunate, negative things that happen in life. How often do you turn on the news and hear a majority of positive, uplifting stories? Like, never. It's always sad, depressing stuff.

Peoples. Come on.

When we focus on the blackness that always surrounds us in life, it tends to shut out the light that's there as well.

"Always Living Life Happy." That's the point of this, right? To point out the bright little gems of ordinary life that make me happy? To find "the miracle in the mundane" (as one of my new favorite authors Tyler Knott Gregson so nicely said). I'm certainly no poet, but I like to think that these little thoughts I post on here somehow brighten at least one person's day, somewhere. Maybe someone in, like, Belgium, or something. That would be neat.

So, dear friends, might we all focus more on the light, the happiness, the little wonders that fill our lives? Wouldn't that help us all to live life a little happier?

I certainly think so. :)