Positivity: Originality

It has been argued that there are no original ideas.

I disagree. Why? Because each of us as individuals are completely original.

Certainly we are the products of recycled genetics, but we are, none-the-less, original. I am the only me that there is. You are the only you in existence. Even if you are a twin, a triplet or an octuplet, you are original. One-of-a-kind.

This is an amazingly positive idea. Because we are originals, we have something different to offer the world. We can build and create and share our singular viewpoints and ideas, and when we put them all together we can form original communities capable of astounding things.

At the same time, though we are individuals, we are also all one. This may be a paradox, but this is nevertheless why we can relate to each other. This is why we communicate with one another as we do, this is why we all want to love and be loved and to form families and friendships and other communities.

Because we are all original, because none of us think in exactly the same way, we each have an opportunity to choose for ourselves. Unlike the members of the animal kingdom who simply do what is necessary to survive, we can invent magnificent tools to thrive in ways even we have not fully realized. It is original ideas that have shaped us and our world, and there are still more to be invented.

No, this concept I am suggesting is not wholly original. I am certainly not the inventor of positivity. My approach, my methodology and how I explain making, finding and generating positivity is unique, and while it is likely not completely original, how I have chosen to share it is. Every post every week is from my collected thoughts and learning and lifetime of experience, presented in a manner that is, conceptually, original.

Even an idea that improves on an existing idea can be original. What is most important, however, is the attempt. So many people resist change and resist doing things differently, they do nothing about it and let the inundation of bad news and negativity envelop them. But we can choose to find positive things instead. The ways in which you choose to bring positivity into your life and how you feel will be original for you, and that is a very positive thing.

Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that we can create our own, unique, original ideas, we can strive to find new and unique means 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 fifty-fourth 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.