A little ray of pitch black
I saw this sign in the window of a local coffee shop this week, and I think it describes some people.
They are negative about everything.
It's like the guy who said, "I thought about buying the book, The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought, what damn good would that do?"
It's sometimes easy to get into the habit of being negative or unhappy with things.
My grandmother used to say, "People are down on what they're not up on."
In other words, they're against anything they don't understand. I guess that's not all bad. If you don't understand something, maybe it's better if you stay away from it and don't get involved with it. But you can't be negative about everything and still be happy.
I try to avoid being around negative people. I had a fiddle teacher one time that I quit taking lessons from because I found myself dreading to be around him every week. He was one of the most negative people I think I have ever met.
I understand that sometimes you need to complain about something or be unhappy about something, but the sky can't always be falling.
That's one thing I love about the RVing lifestyle. I don't run into many negative people. It seems that most RVers are always happy.
This past week a guy pulled into the campground in a brand new 2019 fifth-wheel camper. He had someone watching as he came into the campground, but the person wasn't watching the top corner and let him go under a low tree limb. He ended up scraping the top corner of his new camper all the from front to back. A lot of damage was done, but it would be covered by insurance.
You would expect him to be raging mad (or at least, unhappy), but he wasn't. He didn't seem to be upset with the damage to his new RV or with the guy who was supposed to be guiding him into his space.
Obviously, he had learned to go with the flow and to realize that things happen and things go wrong when you're RVing.
By-the-way, that's the third time in my seven years of RVing that I've seen an RVer scrap the top corner of their RV against a tree limb when somebody was supposed to be watching. In all three cases, the person who was supposed to be watching said, "I wasn't watching up there." Duh.
Bottom line: I know it's easier said than done, but we all need to learn from the song Don't worry. Be happy that I referred to in last weeks article. We need to just go with the flow. And by all means, don't be negative. I'm trying.