Positivity Thread
 

I dunno if it's just me or if I'm too optimistic or whatever, but I have been seeing a lot of negativity around here in terms of well, everything. It's not exclusive to this forum just everywhere.
I feel like every once in a while a dose of positivity is needed to help the urge of becoming a negative nancy or a cynical jerk. Or more importantly, becoming a terribly unhappy person that merely focuses on the negative and is unable to find happiness in much of anything.
Everyone has had a time in their life when they just needed something positive to look forward to during a difficult or hard time. Music, meditation and prayer helped me out a lot during an extremely tough breakup a few years back and during my "Everything sucks I just wanna punch everything phase" when I was 15.
Now please no religion, or belief bashing, we're all adults here (most of us anyway:P) so have at it.
What is something, or some things that help you be a stay and or be positive?
anyway here's a ridiculous video that at the very least makes me laugh when I've had a long day.

There you go.

It's not too hard for me to stay positive and optimistic. Just play some gamez and I'm good. Even if the game sucks it's like "Well, at least I can appreciate so and so even more".

Being in the gym makes me feel positive. No matter how lousy a day I'm having otherwise, that all stops at the door. I just seriously feed off of other people's hard work and energy.

Video games and loud music helps, too. Those are great things.

I'm pretty positive. I pretty much surround myself with things that make me happy (Books, Star Wars stuff, games, ect.)

The fact that this was the first response. :lol:

I've already seen both of these a million times and they still manage to make me laugh more than anything. "What are you, GAY?" "Yeh. :)"

Here's another:

That was the video the topic creator tried to post but embedded it incorrectly so I did it for him.

Ah. Still hilarious, though.

Haha. My BF had showed me that video. XD I enjoy the Oney Cartoons.
Listening to Vocaloid keeps me happy. (Especially the Synchronicity Story.)

:tanime: And also hanging around those I love. That, too, makes me happy.

Thanks for that. I'm liking the variety of responses. The epitome of different strokes for different folks.

Talking to one of my brothers or my mother helps me out a lot. I also have a collection of images on my desktop that exist just to make me laugh. I'll post a few, though I rotate them every once in a while:
http://i.imgur.com/ueVhkT3.png

http://i.imgur.com/igysSld.png

http://i.imgur.com/a8n030o.gif

http://i.imgur.com/o6yRLMP.png

http://i.imgur.com/lM56JWO.png

Talking to my sisters helps me think positively.

I also learn a lot on positive thinking in the old toon TMNT episode Doomquest. One of the turtles is told to learn positive thinking and that helps teach me not to let bad events get the better of me.

Listening to music, making music, great friends, WWE, videogames, and just trying to help others when I can motivate me the most.

I've learn over the years to not take the small things for granted, either. I can find happiness in almost essentially anything.

Heck, bubble wrap is an universal example.

The usual videogames, music, and hanging with good friends combo also works well for me. And like leo656's comment, being around positive people that want to do their best and put their own creative energies to work is also tops for me because it also allows me to fine tune myself to do some cool work. Pets are also good to have around.

Reading a good book, listening to music, watching my favorite TV shows, writing fan fiction, and talking with fellow TMNT fans are ways I do my best to stay positive. I'm not negative all of the time for sure, though I think we all get in ruts at the best of times.

I love reading. That helps. Videogames do too as well as going through the dvd/video on demand library I've accumulated over the years. Quality time with family also helps. I'm usually positive though.

Pandaderek, shuriken and Netkeeper, none of that here. Seriously. Everything does not have to devolve into sex discussions.

Let's keep this thread clean.

That's gotta be a record.

Still... that bubble wrap, though. Good times.

I have fun with that stuff every now and then too. Still have to go with ceramic clay though; you can really make all sorts of cool with ceramic clay. Heck any other clay will also work if you don't over bake it or let it dry out -not unless you're though building up your form-.

Chocolate helps me stay positive too.

woops. :ohwell:
Sometimes I like to see how my life would be if it were not for certain people. When I've had a rough day it would just reaffirm that aside from some things my life is pretty good, especially for the people in my life that care about me. It's a nice feeling.