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How Do You Stay Positive In A World With So Much Negativity?

Lukas Schwekendiek
4 min readJun 29, 2021

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This is going to be a rather unconventional take on this topic, but in my point of view the answer is: You can’t.

Sexism, Rape, War, Starvation, Disease, Discrimination, Suicide, Depression, Child Abuse, Kidnapping, Animal Abuse, Extinction, Global Warming, Waste, Torture, and even Slavery and many more horrible things are still part of our world.

We can try to deny this as much as we want, but in certain dark areas of the world these things still exist.

Paying attention to all of them will undoubtedly get you into a worse state of mind.

You cannot fight all the negativity in the world; but the other side to that is that you do not have to.

As hard as this may be, you have to turn away from some of the problems that exist in this world or the burden of it all will crush you.

That is not to say you should blatantly ignore them when they appear in front of you, but please do not try to shoulder the responsibility of everything going on all on your own.

In my opinion, it is much better to pick a few battles that you truly support than fake your support for everything that comes your way.

If you avoid being a sheep that mindlessly clicks the “Like” button on a sad…

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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