The Philosophy of the Titanium Don
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Category: Positivity

Some Feelings You Can’t Put Into Words

You’re not alone in having inexplicable feelings impact you. I have no words to describe what I’m feeling at this moment. I think the issue is that there’s no single what or how to the feelings I’m currently experiencing. The trouble is, because I can’t express this, neither can I release it. A little backstory. Today, there was a gathering of specific individuals in my life that always comes with complexities, challenges, and stress. What’s more, it’s mostly subtle, a

Nontoxic Positivity Embraces Both Bad and Good Happenings

That’s because nothing is only positive. The word “positivity” has become fraught because it’s often applied toxically. The “power of positive thinking” is bandied about like the ultimate cure to what ails you, but it’s often shared incompletely. What that means is this: The idea that staying positive, focusing only on positivity, and denying, disregarding, and/or ignoring bad, negative things is the only way. Put on your rose-colored glasses, make sure the blinders are in place, and tiptoe through the

Avoiding Negativity is Both Impossible and Unhealthy

Negativity is part of the human experience. Many messages in today’s world stress the importance of positivity. Many of them are highly toxic because they imply, if not outright state, that positivity is everything and you’re nothing without it. I’ve been writing about nontoxic positivity for over 12 years now. It’s important to recognize how nontoxic positivity, and its recognition of negativity and everything in between, differ from toxic positivity and its blinders. However, I think I sometimes make it

You and Your Life Is the Best Place to Start

Your life is the only place you have any real control. Spend any time on social media, watching the news, or even interacting with people, it looks like the world is going mad. So many crazy, bizarre, distressing things are happening in the world, across the country, and probably among people you know more intimately; it can all feel utterly out of control. For some, getting involved and organizing protests, leading boycotts, driving people to polling places, and the like,

No Two People Desire the Same Thing

Most desires are intangible and abundant. Apart from greedy, intentionally cruel, terrible people, nobody wants war. History shows how time and again, despite some technological advancements, war only gets us dead people on both sides. Today is Memorial Day in the United States. On this day, we honor those who gave their lives so that our democracy and its principles could remain. Whether the war they fought was just or unjust, today we honor fallen soldiers and their ultimate sacrifice.

YOU Are Worthy and Deserving

Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. One of the most difficult things to deal with in the world today is how many people want us to live small. A relatively tiny percentage of the so-called “wealthy” and “powerful” care for only what advances them. The rest of us are expected to be grateful for the table scraps they’re “generously” tossing us. The messages are overwhelming. Do this, that, or the other thing, in the way we insist, or else you’re

You Can’t Provide Awareness For Another

Awareness is an individual inside job. Genuine, nontoxic positivity is relatively easy to find. Unfortunately, real positive things are easily eclipsed by – *waves around, inarticulately, at the current world situation* – all of this. Some weeks, it’s especially hard to write about this, because various and sundry things keep it hidden and make it look disingenuous and false. I love watching people. Seeing how people are, their body language, expressions, how they carry themselves, and such, is utterly fascinating.

It Empowers You to Admit When You Don’t Know

This is positive, despite the idea that the opposite is true. Some people cannot admit to ever being wrong. Similarly, you probably know someone who knows a lot, and/or a little, about seemingly everything. Still, for all that you can and do know, what you don’t know doesn’t make you less. How much is there to know? So much. And when you are from different parts of the world, you have different bases of knowledge to work from. There is

Most People Are Not So Bad

They just don’t tend to make the news. It’s all too easy to look at the world and the people in it and think the worst. Like everywhere you turn, you learn about someone doing something terrible. The latest shooting, crime, greedy billionaire, or similar awful human is paraded before you on the news, social media, and so on. Looking at the big picture, and the world of politics, big business, and celebrity, bad people doing bad things appear to

Choosing Not to Let Worry Hijack You

There’s a line between concern, worry, and how you let it impact you. Unless you’re living under a rock, you’re probably being impacted by the crazy happenings around the world. Governments committing atrocities at home and abroad, the greedy harming people and the environment alike, and a disturbing increase in maligning the kind, compassionate, and empathetic. Spend any time on social media, and you’ll be quickly bombarded with all kinds of terrible, awful, negative things. Is it any wonder so

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