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Positive Honesty

Mirah

Mirah

I love you
I am a positive person, but I also think I am a realist. If something sucks, I will just say it sucks.
Unless it is your first blackberry pie. I will tell you it tastes marvelous! I'll leave the food honesty to Dr_Dave. (YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN DR_DAVE DON'T PRETEND LIKE YOU DON'T!)

So where do we draw the line at being too fucking positive? If you are a motivational speaker, but you just got hit by a train, is it ok to say this fucking sucks? Or do you still put a positive spin on it? Are you being honest with yourself and others when you say, "I am positive I will be back on my feet soon, and everything will be ok, and I'll just keep thinking positive and it will be ok, and I'm fine, and this doesn't hurt and everything is ok"

I am exagerating a little bit, but I am trying to make a point. I totally believe in positive thinking, but I also believe in honesty.

I think the only people I know who are like this are those that have businesses where it is their job to be positive and motivate others, but it gets annoying at times. I also wonder if it is a detriment when it seems they cannot relate to the suffering of others because they think if you just have a positive attitude it will all go away.

Are they pretending or are they really THAT FUCKING POSITIVE?!
 
My positivity is directly related to how long it has been since there were new pictures of Michelle Trachtenberg.

I hope that helps!
 
It Does Help Tomtrek! Thanks!

So, my question to you is, If it were a very very very long time since you have seen a Michelle Trachtenberg photo, then how would you act/react?

Say 1 hour.
1 Day
A whole year!
One month
48 Hours
 
I could probably do, like, a week but after that I'd proably gnaw my own ears off.
 
Mirah said:
I am a positive person, but I also think I am a realist. If something sucks, I will just say it sucks.
Unless it is your first blackberry pie. I will tell you it tastes marvelous! I'll leave the food honesty to Dr_Dave. (YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN DR_DAVE DON'T PRETEND LIKE YOU DON'T!)
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I don't know what you mean Mirah.
 
Dr Dave said:
I don't know what you mean Mirah.
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You told me once that you told a friend's mom that you didn't like her cake because you prefer pie, or something like that! I thought it was an amusing story because most people would lie to spare other people's feelings and you don't do that! (its a good thing)

Am I wrong?
 
You are not wrong.

It was probably Bick's mom who I said that too.
 
If there's coffee & walnut cake around, I'm positive.
 
I work in Marketing. Armando Iannucci deplores us for our relentless positivity.

People in Marketing would see Hiroshima as an "Opportunity for a blank canvas in urban design"

This relentless positivity during working hours, means that I have to balance it with a cynicism outside of work.
 
The closer it gets to the weekend, the more positive I get.
 
I'm a realist, not so sure about positive. Hmm. Is that me being realistic and correctly identifying that I'm not especially positive, or am I being negative?

Anyway, I do get a bit miffed at times by those "seize the day!" types, who seem to be oblivious to the many people who would love nothing better than to "live life to the full", but are faced with intractable barriers. If you've got no arms and legs or something, or you suffer from chronic agoraphobia or depression, or you live in poverty in spite of relentless, grueling labour, then you can't embrace life, you don't want to, and being told by some privileged idiot that you should do anyway is just going to make you even more miserable.

It's like going up to a guy in a wheelchair and saying "hey, you know what's really great? Running! You should try it some time! It's awesome! Well, can't stop to chat, I'm off to have a RUN!"

Hope you run under a truck, you insensitive, hypotethical shit!
 
There is a difference between eternal optimism, realism, and stoicism. I have found in my life that some of my experiences have given me a very even-tempered outlook that some mistake for optimism. I tend not to react to smallscale disaster-dramas with what people think is the appropriate amount of "OH NOES!" because everything is in a different context for me. I know it can get much worse than this, I've been there, so this ain't that bad. Lot of times it's the kind of attitude you see in people who have had some major medical issue and gotten past it, or people who have escaped near death like that Aaron Ralston kid. That kind of life-changing event puts everything into sharp perspective, and for me at least makes every other crisis I face just a little less earthshattering and a little more amusing.

Don't get me wrong, I still know there is no end to the stupidity of others so I have a cynical edge. But when it comes to "insurmountable obstacles" I think there are a lot less of those than people think.
 
I'm extremely cynical. But a hopeful cynic. Oxymoron.
 
Yes, please.
 
Tisiphone said:
I'm extremely cynical. But a hopeful cynic. Oxymoron.
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I'm 100% cynical, yet remain delusionaly hopeful at times. I'm also allergic to the Bovine species, so I guess that's just a 'moron', which is also an adequate description of me.
 
Delusionally hopeful. Yes, that sounds about right for me too. :)
 
I think there's a difference between positive honesty and heartless honesty. I try not to say things to people that will hurt them for no reason.
 
I've spent much of the last decade in denial of one thing or another.
 
I've got a lot of problems with you people, and now you're all going to hear about it!
 
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