Negate the Negatives

My personal life is amazing and full of happy positive people, however, I spend a large majority of my day dealing with a very negative crowd. I also spend a lot of time on Social media platforms for my side work and noticed that there are also an extreme amount of opinionated people who seem to only have a goal of destroying others. Several years ago my husband and I lost our son and were fighting extremely hard to keep a positive outlook. Even when we found out we were expecting again we both found it difficult to immerse ourselves in the joy of our new beginning. Not getting into details but the people my husband were the closest to and who should have been comforting him through his pain decided to not just turn their backs on him but pummel him with disastrous comments and just sickly behavior. In an attempt to save ourselves from spiraling into depressions we decided to look at the good in everything. It sounds easy and sometimes it was. Other times we had to rely on the other to force feed happiness into our marriage. That's what marriage is though. It is that unconditional trust and love that allows one person to fall to their knees knowing the other will pick them up and carry the weight for a while. During our Sunny Days Marathon we read positive quotes, talked about the joys in our lives the past, present and future. We completely rid ourselves of anyone or anything that was unhealthy or rotten. We found that as we gained strength in our happy minds we began truly enjoying life. We became so excited for our daughter and spent time together preparing for her and writing in a journal for her. We had date nights that were filled with laughter. We fixed ourselves, together.
I decided to apply this same process to my social media activities for the month of March. I thought that if it worked before maybe I could stomp out the negative again. I began posting uplifting quotes on my Facebook wall daily. Each one has received numerous likes and has been shared each day! People are really responding to something joyous or encouraging. I have openly issued compliments to my coworkers every single day and I'm not sure if they've noticed I am even doing it but each day has been a bit more pleasurable. If a friend posts something inspirational I acknowledge it. I compliment those that share a photo of themselves. I say nice things to those who seem to be having a rough day. I noticed that the nicer I am even to those that don't deserve it the more positive I feel. I have to power to inspire people! I love it! Day 10 and I am already seeing amazing results and I cannot wait to see what a full month of this will bring!