Positive or Negative?

[Avocado]

Do you see what is wrong or what is right?

 

[senza tema]

I do have a tendency to perceive things in terms of wrongness or lack of wrongness. It is a negative way to view the world, for sure, and fails to assign people or things the worth they deserve sometimes.

What prompted this question?

 

[indra]

Yes.

 

[Opal]

 

[á´…eparted]

Improving my ability to do this kinda defines my existence really.

 

[Chthonic]

Why must there be a duality here? Plenty of people are capable of seeing what is working and what isn't within the same context. One does not need to be an extremist either way.

 

[Thalassa]

It depends on what it is. Sometimes I am extremely optimistic and other times I correct people. Like I saw am idiot article today about a "camping list" and seriously the upper middle class housewife might as well had her kids pitch tents in the backyard, seeing as that she was afraid to camp without conditioner, a nail file and a laptop. I definitely had something to say about that because her list was obnoxious and had power to influence others, namely robbing children of an actual camping experience and putting stress on the environment by dragging iPods and laptops camping. I honestly thought she was one of the biggest morons I have ever encountered, but didn't say so, but felt compelled especially to mention the absurdity of taking a laptop camping. Not to mention this person's disgusting energy dependence, oh yeah let me take my television CAMPING. Yeah I can get pretty nasty about stuff like that.

EDIT: Just to clarify I wasn't hating on someone's personal list in a blog, but an actual hairbrained misguided article that was intended to give advice to others, and it was just supremely bad advice that defied common sense as well as my personal moral code, I mean seriously the woman was a complete capitalist tool.

 

[skylights]

I tend to lean to whichever side feels less balanced to me.

 

[Tellenbach]

I'm more adept at seeing what is wrong. It's easier to spot a huge cockroach running around than a well kept room.

 

[Mole]

I am a natural idealist who was bitten by reality, so I turn over every beautiful idea to see what is underneath.

 

[ceecee]

Wrong. I don't usually need to point out things that are right.

 

[senza tema]

Wrong. I don't usually need to point out things that are right.

Like the news, haha.

 

[five sounds]

potential. i try to take a hard look at what *is* then i think about why it might be less than it can be. then i focus on what's behind those things, driving them. then it's basically over from there. nothing is pure, and there's always pollution. but i do try to focus on how to break down those barriers by addressing their core fears or hangups or whatever they may be.

(i hope this makes sense)

edit: i think i try to find the 'comment element' in all things as well. how it's connected to everyone and everything else.

 

[Galena]

Whichever side is missing. If I'm surrounded by people bashing something, I'll more easily see something of worth in the object. If something is widely loved, my attraction cools or becomes more analytical and questioning - if I can figure out why people like something, and it makes sense, I may yet give it a try. The first mechanism, sniffing out a value in and use for things that are supposed to be inferior, is stronger, more automatic and compelling.

In theory, if others are seeing one side, and I pick up the other side, maybe we can put the sides together for a more emotionally balanced and realistic image. But it also comes from a core wound - I'm defending against the notion that a thing can exist that has no place in the universe. I'll make a place if I have to - for an object and, down deep, for myself.

 

[Coriolis]

I mostly see what is wrong. What is right doesn't need to be fixed.

 

[Mademoiselle]

I do, if I don’t I seek for it until I find it.
It’s an important point in every thinking process I do.

 

[Mademoiselle]

I mostly see what is wrong. What is right doesn't need to be fixed.

Unless to be improved.

 

[skylights]

potential. i try to take a hard look at what *is* then i think about why it might be less than it can be.

Your wording resonates with me. I feel like I tend to see what is good now and how obstacles can be removed so it can become better. I think that often makes me seem pessimistic, because I am focused on changing things, but to me it seems optimistic to want to act on a potential.

 

[prplchknz]

most things are subjective, when it comes to positive or negative. the fact i spent thanksgiving alone most would view that as negative, but you know what, it was good overall. I hung out with the dog ate chicken and mashed potatoes finished helix watched a fucking awesome show i had never heard of (darknet) and played final fantasy 7 and talked to my mom for an hour on the phone. got a text from a friend (who celebrated a week ago with her family and boyfriend, but worked a double yesterday) but everything is about perspective. and it's easy to get stuck in the everything sucks perspective. positive or negative is more emotional words.

 

[Hitoshi-San]

I'm more of an optimist. I don't doubt every single thing, I'm generally not brought down or discouraged by anything, but I can be skeptical, to be point of extreme negativity.