The old saying goes that it is a fine line between love and hate. Trust me when I say that this is a very true saying. It does not take as much as it should to move from one to the other. Obviously, it is harder in one direction than the other.
I would submit that it is also a fine line between positive and negative. One can be genuinely honest but put a positive spin on it or one can work the opposite side of the coin and see only the negative side of a situation. People react to you according to how you present the opposing sides of the same situation. For example, I could say to someone at work that the meeting we were just in was a complete waste of time. Or, I could say that we should narrow the focus to get a better result from having the meeting. Both address the fault of the meeting not fulfilling expectations, but only one provides a solution and suggestion to the problem; the other one simply bitches about what it does not have.
I think we see these examples in the various facets of our lives and maybe we could take an extra moment or two to decide which path we want to take and which one would yield a better result in the long run.
Peace.
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