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[hmmnmm]

Is there a mechanism in the brains of some people, that even if things are going pretty good, a signal is sent to set off the mechanism in order to find something to complain about?

Or maybe all of us have it in various measures? For example, when life takes troublesome turns, it seems I can think of more to blog about, but when things take an upswing into the more positive (as they have lately), it's harder to think of something to write.

Just something I couldn't help but wonder about - I won't go into the personal tidbits that inspired this wonderment.

Ain't humans strange beings?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Is there a mechanism in the brains of some people, that even if things are going pretty good, a signal is sent to set off the mechanism in order to find something to complain about?

Or maybe all of us have it in various measures? For example, when life takes troublesome turns, it seems I can think of more to blog about, but when things take an upswing into the more positive (as they have lately), it's harder to think of something to write.

Just something I couldn't help but wonder about - I won't go into the personal tidbits that inspired this wonderment.

Ain't humans strange beings?

I would guess that most people are like that. Its much easier to complain. If things are going well and you mention that, it might sound too much like bragging.

 

[hmmnmm]

I would guess that most people are like that. Its much easier to complain. If things are going well and you mention that, it might sound too much like bragging.

I suppose everyone has it in less or greater degrees. I just recalled a couple grandparents. It was like the controls in their minds were set to 'Gloom' and no matter what good things life might bestow upon and around, the view was still Gloomy.
I know you can't completely avoid it, but I try to be aware of it if it is to a detrimental degree. Call it a sensitivity.

Of course, the opposite would be the perpetually positive, which can be equally untrustworthy and a sapper of energies.

Interesting.

 

[gauchecritic]

There is an inherent need to be gloomy in the normal course of things. Ordinarily, you're breathing, walking, talking, interacting, being distracted and just generally being alive. It's mostly fantastic. It wouldn't be fantastic if you didn't have things to show you how fantastic they were.

Many years ago I was talking to someone that gave me a list of catastrophes by way of explanation of their life. It was a list you would never wish upon your worst enemy including rape, death of two siblings (one by murder) their own mental health, the effects of poverty on their growing family and coping with the cancer that they had. This was their life.

What did they complain about? (they had any amount of complaints to be bothered by that list) They were mostly worried, and complaining about, how they could afford snacks for their dog.

The worst thing at that moment was the price of dog biscuits. Incredible huh?