Positivity means expecting success and focusing to make life happier. Negativity means expecting the worst and making life gloomier. Neutrality means “keeping the golden midpoint’.
Positive person thinks in terms of “I can. It is possible. I am doing my best to improve myself and my life.” Negative individuals speak: “I cannot control my mood and my thoughts that come into my head.” Neutral human beings in words of Heywood say: “Let the world slide, let the world go; a fig for care, a fig for woe.”
Positive thinking is criticized as blind optimism. They say, it is self cheating; it creates a false hope; it says --- everything will be fine --- ‘bivpachi koslich goroz nam.’ Such thoughts make one fail to take necessary precaution. According to A.J. Walton, “Too much positivity can be a dangerous thing”. This option, of high expectation of self, especially before wise fools sitting on school benches, end up with good grief, as dropout from schools or dissatisfied employees with no job satisfaction, in institutions where for them, work becomes woe and life turn into frustration. As they fail to discover their skill.
Similarly, negative thinking is also condemned. Negative thoughts clutter the mind and rob its clarity and erode its power of judgment and the mind cannot distinguish what is real and what is not. According to Bee Maloney, “Doctors have found that people with high levels of negativity are more likely to suffer from illness and recover from sickness much slower than those with a positive mindset. Negative thoughts are like weeds and if we allow those weeds to take over, they choke all the good things in life.
Positivity is also appreciated. The wise positive students believe in the aphorism: “God helps those who help themselves.” Take for example, the spirit of positive individuals that have taken them to great heights: -- Sir Edmund Hillary’s climbing up Mount Everest. Gandhi’s return from South Africa to India to begin the struggle for independence and India won independence from Britain in 1947, with Gandhi’s peaceful civil disobedience campaign.
Negativity is also respected because of its imagination about the worst things that can happen, which often prevents or alerts us to take action, before the most terrible thing could occur. This shows the hidden power of negative thinking.
Neutral individuals’ attitude is: I, me; myself. When someone ask such individuals, what about the rest? They reply: ‘Mhaka Kiteak poddlam...’ Such people sing and dance, as our hills are butchered and our emerald green forest are raped. Such neutral persons believe that ministers would use a magic wand and cure all the ills in this land. Then the trucks would move, the barges would move, the export ships would move and “Accha Din” would dawn with cattle free, accident free with broad roads.
Mahatma Gandhi had once said that true democracy cannot be worked by 20 men sitting at the Centre. It has to be worked from below by the people of every village. Therefore, people’s active participation in a democracy is a must to keep it alive.