You're Positive Even When Life’s Beating You Down.

You're not as negative as you think.

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I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don’t always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude — Jennifer Hyman

Life is difficult and most times a real struggle. It's hard when you go through a tough time to even think of having a positive attitude. Everything feels like it's falling apart being positive is the furthest thing from your mind, right?

Well, let us think about this for a moment. When something bad happens in your life, like an illness in the family or a job loss or even a bereavement.

What do you do to get through it?

The chances are you and your family and friends all rally round and work out how to move forward. You get through the bad time and come out the other side a better person for it.

That is what being positive is. Having a positive attitude is how you carry on when everything is falling apart. Those are the times when you need more than anything to stay positive!

Not much point in having a positive attitude when things are going great, you will already be positive. Because you are in a positive place negative thoughts will appear less, although naturally, you will still have doubts.

But a truly positive attitude appears when life gets you down. Those are the moments when being positive will get you through. It would be nearly impossible to get through the dark times with a purely negative attitude.

I think we all think positively whether we like to admit it or not. It's just a natural thinking pattern that serves us well.

Plus when we have gotten through really bad times we appreciate the good times even more. Everything in life, our minds and our bodies have negative and positive sides. They help to keep us balanced.

One can't exist without the other.