If you are surrounded by negative, do you become negative, or do you hope to save the world around you?

Question

What are your method to improve your immediate environment without falling prey to being the environment you live in?

Do you blend, or make a ruckus to make a difference?

Answer 1

It depends how strong you are

Answer 2

I hope to save the world around me. Just because I am me, and I refuse to be what the rest of the world is. I am different, and I like me like that. I am not one to fall into the clutches of my environment, mostly because I am one of the few people left who doesn't listen to gossip or the bad things that others think of me. Why should I blend in? An environment full of the same exact people over and over again, I'd just be another face in the crowd. I am not by any means blunt, or the same as everybody else. I'd make a ruckus. Why not? Perhaps I can't completely change my negative environment, but I can leave a mark, even a small mark. "Things can change. For the better." How do I make a ruckus? By being different. While everyone is wearing black, I'll wear yellow, or blue, or white. While everyone is listening to RB, rap, hip hop, I'll listen to gospel. Like I said, maybe I can't change, but I can make people take a step back and see what they're oblivious to.

Answer 3

What a great question. You've heard people say, you make me sick. But can someone else really make a person sick? Or do you make yourself sick and blame it on someone else? Here's what you do. Stay centered within your own being. Like you are the center of the universe. The rest of the world is out there but you watch what is going on from your safe centered space. You won't fall prey to another because the other person has no effect on you. You don't blend and you don't make a ruckus. It's called being in the world but not of the world. You can still save the world but you are coming at it from a place of real inner strength and peace.

Answer 4

you will think it is negative if you think it is and the society think it's negative, and the other way around as well.
You can never be able to save the world, but you can actually make a difference by speaking what is in your mind. at first people will think you are a freak and weird, but if you persistant enough, perhaps there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
Keep and open mind on everything that you see and try to think in a more philosophical way. ( just like socrates, but he died because of the way he think and he tried to make a difference...)
A fish, since they were born they live in water, so perhaps it's hard for them to notice that there is water till they were taken out of the water and realize that they need water and there he/she realize that there is such thing as water.
I guess the only method is to try to pour in you ideas inside people's mind slowly, it will takes time but i guess one day it will show the result, rather than if you force it too hard ( eg. using violence ) it will create chaos.
My choice, i will take what is positive ( what i think it's positive to me.. ) and remove the negative ( what i think it's negative to me ) and just live life peacefully.
I'm not the kind of person that will start a revolution because i want people to think the way i think. Peace...

Answer 5

That is what spirituality is all about !
Take the life of ANY spiritual leader of ancient times. Jesus, Prophet, Socrates, Buddha, Krishna etc. They were surrounded by negative, and yet they made a difference due to their inner power.
In eastern philosophy, the spirituality is symbolised by a Lotus flower, because, it grows and thrives in deep slush (deeper the better !) , and yet remains UNTOUCHED, adding beauty to the place, and attracting 'seekers' even towards the slush !
Well,
a person is said to have truly evolved into a true human being only when he is no more affected by the surroundings. He resolves his inner state in a particular way and 'stabilises' into that way, ensuring inner growth, irrespective of the outside situation. Such people turn out to be the best ever 'negotiators', and have their way , whatever it takes. Notice that Jesus was the best 'negotiator' around at that time, since he had his way, amidst worst possible situation !
Similarly, in the mythological epic Mahabharata, Krishna was the best negotiator, and had his way, even when in the midst of worst of wars of those times !

Answer 6

It is imperative to mend and save oneself first and then only one can think of making others' thinking positive to some extent. World never changes but we can try to change the immediate environment around us by at least changing ourselves. People when see the change intialized, they start following and the number swells day after day. This we can say we have changed the world around us.
Saving the world around us depends on the people around us. Only they can save themselves. If we do not have the will power, we can not change... Only strong will power can save us from falling prey to negative thinkings...

Answer 7

Negativity feeds on positive engery. If you put a positive person in the room filled with all negative ppl, they will be drawn to that positive person like a light in the darkness but they engulf it and eventually smother that light out until the positive one is a new negative. We all try to save the world but this is not done with surrounding yourself with negative ppl. Fire needs air to breathe and grow and if it gets smothered out ...well...thats that. But if you allow that flame to get air it will grow and spread so we conquer one negative at a time and they turn into positive and then it just continues to spread 1 to 2 2 to 4 4 to 8 and so on.

Answer 8

It's your choice. We are all surrounded by negative and positive. We choose which to pay most attention to, which to emphasize. Anyone you've ever heard of who has worked to make the world better has done it while being surrounded by negative; everyone who has gone in a destructive direction has done so surrounded by positive.

My strongest tool to avoid being sucked in by the negative is to seek out and surround myself with others who tend to look at the positive. Not blindly upbeat "don't-worry-be-happy" types, but folks who focus on possibilities and opportunities without ignoring the problems. People who believe that change is possible and are working in their own ways to make it happen. I talk with such folks on an ongoing basis, sharing ideas and plans and thinking together. Having folks around me who will keep reinforcing the positive enables me to avoid being brought down by the problems.

Answer 9

I never bend and I never make a "ruckus", you just need to get the attention of the other people and look them in the eye and ask them to reflect on what is truly happening and to understand no matter how negative a situtation looks ther is "always" a way to go through it

Answer 10

There is something to be said for relativity. If the environment
is extremely negative then how much positive can that
environment be expected to understand. It might be
preferable to be a gradual positive influence to decrease
the effort of the learning curve of the environment.
Therefore, blend to the proximity of the environment
to establish a gradual positive difference; extremes
don't communicate efficiently.

Answer 11

I can NEVER just sit back and watch negative overtake the world. It only takes one candle to light a wave of candles and that's my philosophy on life --- if there is at least one positive person in an enviroment, the positivity from that person is enough to tip the scale. Being positive in a negative situation inspires others to be positive, to give encouragment to others and to show them that they can to make a difference in a world full of negative if they just choose to remain positive.