Will B.
After pushing the boundaries of some deeper maybe darker issues it’s time to head back to the positive, lighter side of life. The same way videos can go viral on social media apps, positive and negative behavior can go viral with humans. If you’re unfamiliar with what a viral video is, it is simply a video that attracts so much attention that people spread and share it everywhere until most who use social media have seen the video or heard of it.
Humans can go viral with their actions – it all depends on we people, plodding along in our days, to decide if it is positive or negative.
Negativity can start really small and quickly ramp up if not put in check quickly. For example, you wake up late: “Dang,” I say to myself. “The day is not going to go well.”
This small act can grow into a mountain and quickly spread through the community or those in your circle for the day. So, we now have the catalyst, the late start. Next, just for fun, we throw some fuel on the fire with, “I spilled my coffee and had to change shirts and I got cut off on my way to work.”
It’s natural human behavior to seek out someone to vent to, and venting can be good when we vent and let it go. But when we hold onto that negativity and start passing it around, it starts to compound from one person to the next and before you know it, the virus has a foothold and begins to spread.
Believe it or not, some viruses are good: they can strengthen our immune systems or transfer a vaccine into the human body. As humans, we are very lucky because we have the power to choose what kind of “virus” we spread.
Positivity can spread as easily as negativity and so why not spread the positive and let go of the negative?
When we are happy, we tend to smile and enjoy helping others. When we are negative, we are grumpy and not in the mood to help others. In fact, we humans love company in our misery sometimes. Not cool at all but still our choice.
One of the most valuable things I learned when taking counseling classes is this: no one can make you feel any sort of way, they can’t make you mad, they can’t make you sad, they can’t make you feel happy and so on.
We choose to feel how we feel, just as we choose to react how we do to any given situation. Someone can cut you off in traffic and you can make yourself feel mad but then you are giving free rent in your head to someone who could care less about your day or not even know you got mad over a situation they caused. The same with feeling happy. So, if you follow this simple logic, you can choose how you feel, which can spread positivity to others who will spread it to others and so on.
This is Will B saying in the words of Bob Marley, Don’t worry be happy.