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Originally Posted by Wandering Soul
It's the way our brains were evolved. We've lived in large societies only for 5000 years, when we domesticated animals and planted foods. We've been around for at least 120000 years. The world we lived in most of the time was much different and more dangerous that today's, in which negativity was advantageous. The world has changed, but our brains haven't.
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I have seen some ugly shyt in my days. I'm not even talking about how I grew up or how my family treated me, that's just whatever. I'm talking about, in the course of a rough upbringing (we were homeless on and off throughout my childhood), I've seen how humans can treat each other, how supposedly moral people treat a homeless child. People aren't perfect, and everyone is different...
however...though I always have hope that people will be kind to me, and that I will find friendship, companionship, and eventually love, I
know how unkind people can be, because I've seen it. I know that this is something which needs healing but I'm not sure how that will be accomplished. The people who think I am negative don't know this facet of my life; I don't tell anyone about being homeless. Literally no one outside my family, my T, and now you guys, knows this about me.
While I do have hope and optimism--way way
way more than I'm given credit for--other people and I aren't looking at life from the same perspective.