Turning Negatives Into Positives

Introduction

When I am looking for inspiration sometimes I have negative thoughts, like the fact that most people don't see me as a creator in any way, I am just there when stuff needs to be done, and that makes things difficult and the lines from Bob Dylan's "Joey" come back to nail things home:

Always on the outside of whatever side there was

When they asked him why it had to be that way, “Well,” he answered

“Just because”

The song is a wonderful story and one of my favourite Dylan stories and though eleven minutes long it really is worth taking your time to listen to.

The song is about the life and death of mobster Joey Gallo, who was killed on his birthday at Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy, on April 7, 1972.

And then I think, the reality is that I am loved and respected ....

So This Is What I Do

Newton’s third law states that when two bodies interact, they apply forces to one another that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction. It is also known as the law of action and reaction.

This reflects that every negative, thought, statement or word has a positive opposite, and those positive opposites can be used to replace the negatives.

So sadness becomes happiness, death becomes life, rejection becomes attraction, hate becomes love, hurt becomes healing, no becomes yes, stop becomes go, and failure becomes success.

Of course, this can all be reversed, but there is only one direction that I ever want to go in.

I have written about this many times before in different ways, but I really do like things that are uplifting and put a smile on people's faces, I am not averse to writing dark and dystopian stories, but I don't want people to feel miserable at the end, shocked and scared maybe, but not miserable.

Conclusion

I don't know what I will write next, there are a few open Challenges, maybe I could enter my own that closes next Tuesday, which is essentially about overcoming failure and if you want to enter (you have got this far and I thank you), it is here,

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