Reposting something that I really like...

So around last semester, I used my livejournal (liverjournal hehehee) to cool down on a subject that was really gnawing at me after a really heated debate in class. I kind of wanted to repost it just to remind myself the importance of this entry, and just how deeply it resides in my brain as the right way of thinking.

I'm not a positive person, but more a person that tries to believe in others. No one's inherently bad. They're just ignorant, a little on the dull side, aggravating, etc. But not bad. I have no religion, no holy book that tells me this. I believe everyone is good, because that's just how I feel.

Anyways, enough ramblings, I'm putting up a side note to myself about cynicism:

People look at the world way too cynically for my taste.

Of course, it's way too above me to say I wasn't like that before, in a need for negativity and cynical-ism that put me in a foul mood. But in all realities, can one feel like that all the time, this deep distrust in the government and in the system we live our lives under?

Allbeit, our country is not perfect, and the world is far from perfect, but to not trust the very systems we live under, that's a little extreme. I think positively, because that's the only way we can make change.

To say the government or any form of authority will allow injustice to happen is akin to saying, you have no power to do anything, and you should just let all injustices happen. In order to produce change, you need to be able to compromise and believe in others, especially those who have the power to change things.

I doubt any great leader of social change was cynical. So, why should you be? Just because you're in a foul mood, or you've been having a bad day, you have no right to denounce the very structure our country was built on.

Yes, I agree the country we live in has more than enough difficulties controlling itself and its people. And yes, I agree our country has made more than several unsatisfactory decisions in the last few years about rights and laws.

But that's what being positive about is. We have to be positive that the government will change, because in all reality, can you and your cynicism go and overthrow the government, and reinstate a better way of running things?

I doubt it.






Ahhh, just reading this makes me proud of myself. To think so much has changed in my way of thinking since I was a little middle schooler exploring the depths of the internet. Hurhurhur I'm a deep thinker. :)

(On a side note, I just took one of those weird "draw a picture and we can see into the depths of your mind through these stick figures" personality quiz. Apparently, I'm a happy person who likes round guys and has a straight relationship with her family...)