Positivity Can be Found Anywhere

Positivity can be found anywhere.

How does the game Cards Against Humanity have anything to do with positivity? Believe me when I tell you, it can generate massive positivity.

Positivity can be found anywhere If you’re unfamiliar with the game, you are dealt out a number of white cards with various words and phrases, some benign, some…various degrees of raunchy and/or gross and/or nonsensical. Then, you draw from the black cards, which usually have any range of one to three blank spots you fill in, much like Mad Libs. For example, a particular favorite, a question such as, “Why am I sticky?”

Everyone chooses a white card and passes it to whomever drew the black card. They then read aloud, and more often than not groans and laughter ensue. You totally play to your audience, because the goal is to get your card chosen. Whomever collects the most black cards by the end of the game wins.

There are a lot of expansion packs, and you can make your own cards, too. As such, you can create a lot of cards specific to your friends and organizations.

The amount of laughter generated by one of these games, among my friends, is substantial. Laughter is always a good thing, hence my claim that positivity can be found anywhere. It’s true true that positivity can be found anywhere.

Yes, the tagline for the game is, “A party game for horrible people.” Yes, it can be dirty, and raunchy, and rude, and makes fun of many celebrities and public figures. When you add in specific cards for, say, your hobby organization, it gains some great in-jokes, too. It can be obnoxious, and mean, but because it’s a game, and it almost always draws a great deal of laughter, it’s tremendously positive.

How is it that positivity can be found anywhere?

Bad things happen. We are all going to feel negative emotions, have bad days, and many experiences will be less than enjoyable. That’s life. However, how long we hold onto the negative feelings is entirely up to us. If we let them linger, or we allow them to make us feel victimized, or we don’t in some way release them, they tend to build up. That, in turn, tends to make them harder to release.

In especial when you have a stressful job, whether in real life or in your particular hobby. It can be very difficult to release that tension. Yes, Cards Against Humanity tends to play to a very specific audience…but nothing that draws that much laughter among friends is a bad thing.

The game is not about impressing anyone else, it is simply fun. You get to see how dirty the minds of some of your friends are, and the shared laughter and groans at bad puns and snickers at in-jokes are like a power plant of positivity.

I believe that anything that allows us to relieve stress and enjoy the company of our friends is worthwhile. It is far easier to consciously create a better reality when you feel positive. It also helps to have memories of those moments, so that when you are dealing with stressful situations, whether at work in your hobby or your job, to better deal with the inevitable difficulties, complications, and negativity.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that positivity can be found anywhere, even in a “party game for horrible people,” we can look for the silver linings in the inevitable grey clouds, and choose to release negativity. When we work to actively let go of negativity, it will make us feel better, which in turn helps us to empower ourselves. When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings. We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings. When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for. Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and forty-first entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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