Choices

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." --Kevyn Aucoin

Lately I've been contemplating the choices we make in life. Even how we choose to approach life. For example, I can choose to look at the positive in my life and move forward, or I can choose to dwell on the negative and stay stuck in the mire of my own pessimism. I do not understand those that choose such a path in life. I respect that it is their right to make that choice, but I do not understand it. I know that I too, am guilty of feeling a bit negative at times, I mean, who doesn't? But to choose that day after day would be so exhausting physically, mentally, and emotionally.

As a Psych major, I'm hoping to understand this choice better, and hope to one day help those that suffer from this emotional bondage. But for now I don't know how to approach these individuals, do I try and help them? Who says they even want my help? How would I even try and help them? Or do I choose to distance myself from this negativity and focus on the positives within my life, choosing not to be dragged down into the negative mire?

Sometimes this negativity will indirectly or even directly affect me, and I find it difficult to not take this personally. But I guess it is my choice to take it personally or let it roll off me without letting it get under my skin. For now I guess I will "choose" to find the joy in life, and not let the negativity get to me.