Kindness and Positivity…The World’s Most Renewable Energy

I think that everyone will agree that the world can be separated into two categories. We have those who see the glass as half full and those who see it as half empty. And for the most part, that outlook is applied to all aspects of our lives. We can choose to seek out the positive, or we can be content to see cling to the first negative aspect we find and refuse to look any further. But clearly, both are choices that we must each make for ourselves.

I often liken the half-full contingent to Eeyore from Winnie-the Pooh. But unfortunately, most of the human Eeyore’s are not as adorable and tolerable. These are the folks who always have a gloomy story about how someone or something has wronged them. They are not willing to take ownership of their choice to give up looking for the good in life or even a single situation. They mope around looking for someone else to blame, someone who will fix their issues, and someone who will serve up their happiness and whatever else they want on a silver platter. These are also the people who complain that they have no real friends because everyone deserts them in their hour of need.

The other half of the world is more like Tigger, the bouncy and exuberant resident of the Hundred Acre Wood. These are the people who are not willing to dwell on a negative thought or aspect of a situation. They keep digging until they find even the smallest shred of good to focus on. And then they share that good energy with everyone around them. These are the always smiling, upbeat people whom you love to run into just because they make you feel energized and happy.

Now back to the Eeyore’s plight of disappearing friends and acquaintances. This might be the one time when the half-empty crowd is seeing reality for what it is. They are losing friends and at a remarkably fast pace. But the reason is that these people never create any happiness or positivity for themselves or anyone else. They are just trying to leach it from others. They are satisfied to take and take and take from society and never give back anything motivational, inspirational, or uplifting. They are the pinhole in the balloon of happiness, but they can’t understand why the balloon is deflating. And even the most upbeat and happy of the Tigger clan can only feed so much positivity into the leaking balloon. Sooner or later, each upbeat person leaves out of self-preservation. Eeyore’s are just draining to be around.

But on the flip side, when you gather a band of Tiggers together, energy abounds. They share positivity and kindness with others and receive it back without ever asking for it. Positivity and kindness work like multiplication rather than addition. You always get back much more than just adding the sum of the two or more in the equation. So the thought for the day is to go out and share the kindness and positivity in your heart and watch it ripple around you and then come back to you in even greater amounts than you offered to others. It is truly a renewable energy that will benefit everyone who shares it with you!