I believe we are at a very strange point of flux in history. On one hand, people have decided that it is not good, or nice, or right to say negative things about a race, a gender, a person, or a people. It has become really looked down upon if someone uses a negative stereotype or harsh words to insult someone or something. And, that’s a good thing.
 
On the other hand, particularly as we reached this age of the internet, everyone became so hidden behind screennames that they were allowed to say anything and receive no real consequences. As we all understand, a lot of negative and harsh words have been released.
 
For me, whenever I have seen anything negative being written, ever since the dawning of the internet, (and yes, I was there), that person’s words immediately allow me know what kind of individual that person truly is. I mean, it’s pretty obvious, right? …If someone is saying something positive, you can surmise what type of individual they are. Just as if someone is spouting negativity and judgments and insults and stuff like that, you know who they are.
 
Who wants to be around anyone negative? For if a person is following a path of negativity that just shows you the road they are walking in life: that they are unhappy, unfulfilled, and possess a lot of misguided self-appointed self-worthiness, in association with self-loathing, as they are projecting the own distain and hatred out to the world; whether they admit that to themselves or not. But, the proof is in the pudding, as the old saying goes. A person who speaks hurtful negativity, even if they do it with a smile on their face, who and what they are and the gods they are serving are obvious. Steer Clear!
 
There’s this guy who has popped into my feed of late, Jefferson Fisher. He’s a lawyer from Texas. What he speaks about is positive ways to countermand people who come at you with negativity, negative statements, or try to pull you into arguments and the like. Some of the stuff he suggests is interesting. He’s kind of like one of those positive self-help gurus with a reality, world-based, foundation. The thing is, this man’s suggestions are designed for when you are face-to-face with someone. But, as we all understanding, being face-to-face with someone is very different from some unidentified someone just throwing words of negativity on the internet. There is really no way to combat that. At least I haven’t found one.
 
For example, everyone who knows me as a person, would, most probably, not have bad things to say about me. And, I’m just using myself as an example. Yet, there have been people who have said negative things about me on the internet. They don’t know me. They’ve never met me. Yet, somehow they believe they are some kind of expert on Scott Shaw. Has anything like that ever happened to you? Have people described you to other people, believing they know that super-secret something about you, but they were totally wrong?

There are all kinds of definitions people put out there, describing why a person does such things and attempting to detail their psychological motivations. But, what good does that do? Does an individual who operates on that level of reality ever look within and try to make themselves a better and more positive individual?
 
Here’s the thing, if their words are based in negativity or untruths, what does that say about that individual? If they’ve attempted to alter the truth about a person to suit their own appraisal, should you listen to them? Shouldn’t those facts alone steer you away from them? And this is certainly not just about me. This is about anytime anyone is saying anything negative about any other person or situation. I mean, recently, there was this woman who makes her living as a travel agent so you she did a solo trip to Disneyland to make content and she got hit with tons of on-line hate. This, even though she was planning to do a family trip there in three weeks. Or, this wife and two daughters of a quarterback who had been traded to a different team who got hit with thousands of boos as they entered the stadium of his old team. How is that their fault? How is that his fault? If you ask me, negativity is the biggest crime of humanity as it is the birthplace for so much of the world’s pain. Are you a part of that?
 
All you have to do is look anywhere in your life, now or in the past, what happened when someone said something negative?  The answer is obvious: people, places, and things were hurt. Is hurt or hurting ever the right thing to do?
 
Most people who live in the world of negativity do not possess the self-willingness or inner-strength to even care enough to see that they are being negative, understand what they are doing is elementally wrong, and possess the desire to correct any negativity that they may have unleashed. Thus, whatever they have done travels foreword forever. Should you be any part of that? At most, you should countermand it by turning the tides and saying something positive. At worst, you do nothing or even believe what they are saying.
 
People are really obvious if you simply open your eyes and listen to what they are saying. Is what they are saying based upon positivity or is what they are saying based in negativity? How do you believe you should react when you encounter an individual presenting either one of those very differing categories?
 
Be more than the person who follows the path of negativity.