{"id":530,"date":"2005-03-24T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2005-03-24T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T08:48:14","slug":"positivity_negativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"Positivity &#038; Negativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think people who are very negative are noxious. It&#8217;s like they exude bad karma, bad vibes and negative energy. I have a colleague who&#8217;s very negative&#8211;always dissing things and saying this and that is bad or that she doesn&#8217;t like something even without having given the thing a chance.<br \/>\nLast week, I said to her over lunch that I wanted to go to Japan. And then she went, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like going to countries which don&#8217;t speak English.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t believe it when I heard that! And she dismisses ever visiting China &#8216;cos she pronounces the Chinese people and their eating practices as barbaric (she&#8217;s vegetarian). I think she might as well just forget about visiting anywhere if she wants to find a place that&#8217;s completely vegetarian.<br \/>\nAnd on Tuesday, she asked if I was going to an upcoming company function. I said yes, &#8216;cos the event sounded like fun! To which she went &#8220;Eeeee, you going for such things ah? I don&#8217;t like.&#8221; At that point, I got pretty pissed off at such perpetual displays of negativity. And I just said to her, &#8220;Why are you being so negative??&#8221;  But she didn&#8217;t reply and I just left it as that as I went to buy my lunch.<br \/>\nI get fed up whenever I&#8217;m around such people. They just spoil my good spirits. And if I&#8217;m in a foul mood, they only serve to make me feel worse. While I don&#8217;t expect people to be like bouncy springs all the time, I think her kind of negativity stems from narrowmindedness and the unwillingness to give things\/people a chance. It&#8217;s highly annoying. I also hate the kind of sweeping statements she makes at times.<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s important that we surround ourselves with happy and positive people. On my part, I try to be as happy and positive as possible. Of course, I have my low days and I can be a bitch at times. But for the most part, I try to be happy. And I think happy and positive people attract people who are likewise, and the world just seems like a better place when everyone&#8217;s in good spirits. Don&#8217;t you think so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think people who are very negative are noxious. It&#8217;s like they exude bad karma, bad vibes and negative energy. I have a colleague who&#8217;s very negative&#8211;always dissing things and saying this and that is bad or that she doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=530\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-mullings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}