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The Weight of Negativity

The Weight of Negativity unveils the profound psychological truths behind humanity's bias towards negative experiences, thoughts, and impressions. Rooted in evolutionary survival mechanisms, this piece hopefully explores how our minds magnify fears, criticism, and catastrophes while overshadowing acts of kindness, peace, and progress. By dissecting the "negativity effect," the work tries to offer ...

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Insidious

Negativity is not always overtly depressive,

Positivity is not always overtly happy.

 

Negativity eats away, piece by piece.

It hides in the banal.

Its disguised by layers of colour,

Noise, applause.

 

Negativity is drip fed, unnoticed.

The bland

The ordinary

The acceptable

Even the comfortable.

 

Negativity keeps you in your place,

Convinces you

How...

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Fever of silence

They all turn into madness.

Fear, the poison, injected too often.

A vaccination to prevent you from optimism,

from being an individual,

from the hope you kept deep inside.

You are infected with gloomy thoughts and panic feelings,

a fever of silence.

Only your own mind can set you free,

let you heal and open your eyes for beauty, kindness

and the hidden truth.

 

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keep well

I love your positivity 

With all this current activity

One day you'll get back to some tranquility 

Until then screw any negativity 

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