Negativity
I wonder sometimes if a negative (or positive) view of life is due to experiences or innate tendencies. Because sometimes you see people who have gone through so many difficult times and they have such amazingly positve outlooks. And there are people who don't seem to have gone through so much who view everything extremely negatively. Though there is the factor that you can't possibly know what another person has gone through. But I do wonder if some are just more predisposed to view things with a negative light than others.
posted by Shoshana @ 12:02 AM
3 Comments:
It's both. Innate tendancies of optimism/pessimism or internal/external locus of control crossed with life experiences.
And sometimes you just don't know how awful these people feel on the inside, no matter what they express to you.
Debbie -
I tend to agree with you, that it's a mixture. And you are right, there is no way of knowing the internal pain some people are in.
I say what I do because I (unfortunately) have a friend like this and I know that she tells me about certain aspects of her pain that she doesn't tell to her very best friend in the world.
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