Good Things... Not Always Obvious, But Always With Us.

Good things aren't always obvious.  All of us at some point have opened our eyes in the morning and winced away from the sunlight shooting in through the drapes.  We've covered our heads with our pillows and thought, "there's nothing good about today."  That thought is never correct.


One could think that sun shining and the birds singing and all the beautiful things that a beautiful morning has to offer aren't good things but it's only because they aren't thinking.  One simple thought makes all that worth while.  So they don't care about the sunlight or the birds or about anything else in the world... is it because someone hurt them?  The good thing in this common dreary sentiment is that they once loved someone... and quite possibly still do.  Another good thing is that they can love someone else just as much, maybe even more.  Of course they could be negative enough to counter that another negative thought, but positivity always counters negativity.  Something good is always with us.  I know this because I've been in that dark spot where there seems to be no hope.  I've been in a place where I've refused to listen to the voice of reason who had good things to say even when I followed every thought with negative words.  And most of you have too... at some point.


I posted a comment not too long ago about how, as I spread good things and positivity, I bump into people who meet me with hostility.  They feel assaulted when I ask them to tell me something good.  They actually get angry when I tell them to smile.  We know that physically it takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile, so they're working extra hard to look grumpy.  I find it silly for people to go out of their way to be miserable.  They can't justify it with any story of hardship and woe because I've been there too.  My life isn't as horrible as some people in the world.  I've never known the hardships that so many have known.  But at the same time, many haven't known the horror or the hardships that I have.  And I still have something good.  So how do we warm these people's hearts?  How do we comfort them and help them feel better?  How do we encourage them to spread positivity in order to change their own lives for the better?  We simply smile and wave.  I'd give that person a hug and keep sharing with them the beauty of everything good.  They can ignore it or deny it, but eventually it will melt that hard shell and they'll make it through.  Everybody has something good... countless somethings good.  We just need to open our eyes to see it.  This is the point of "Tell Me Something Good."  We can change our mental health and physical health and all the bad attitudes we have.  And with that, we can change the way of the world.  I'm not going to lie and say that we can vanquish war and cancer and everything bad in the world with a simple thought of something good, but it wouldn't hurt, and it certainly is a start.


I want to thank everyone who carries on this campaign.  I want to embrace you and tell you that every day I read your good things, I am better for it.  Every person that follows this blog or every facebook member who "likes" the page, makes me smile and gives me one more good thing to add to my collection.  Spread positivity.  Smile, laugh, love, and enjoy what you do.  At the end of this blog, approach someone in your life and say to them, "You're my good thing."  It's going to make you smile and I promise it'll make them smile too.


Good things are not always obvious, but they are always with us.
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