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I’ve been asked this question more times than I care to remember.

There are many variations of this question. The most popular being “what do you want to be when you grow up?” We ask this question without even thinking, hoping to gain validation for our own decisions in life. Teachers ask this question to their students for validation in their own teaching methods. Likewise, parents ask this to their children to validate their own parenting skills. We are inundated with all sorts of similar inquisitions during every major stage in life.

Like most people, when asked on-the-spot to summarize my life’s ambitions into a well thought out, articulated response, the first thing that usually comes out of my mouth is:

“Uhhhhhh….”

This reminds me of cattle handlers whose job is to guide the cattle back into their pen The cow is reluctant at first, and only after being poked and prodded into submission, will it scurry back into its pen like well behaved livestock

I would wager that if that cow studied kung-fu, it would deliver a swift back leg kick to the handler’s groin each time it was prodded.

I have a similar reaction when someone asks me the question, “So what do you want to do in life?”

Even though I may not say it aloud, what i’m really thinking is:

“Absolutely nothing. I am great doing exactly what i’m doing. But thanks for asking.”

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When I first discovered blogging 8 years ago, I had no clue what it was or why everyone was raving about it. I only knew that everyone was doing it. I found out later what it was and my reaction was,

“That’s it?”

To me, writing about personal stuff online seemed like nonsense. However I realized there was a common theme among bloggers, which was channeling as much emotional content – most of it being negative – into their blog as possible.

In the past I used to come across blogs that contained nothing but pure, unfiltered, soapbox venting. Because of the proliferation of emotionally charged blogs, I would go in with the mindset of expecting to read about the latest gossip in my circle of friends or hearing about the guy who lost his foot in a meat grinder.

I believe this is just another form of mass consumerism for the mind.

There are already too many types of these of stories to go around, so i’ve decided to abandon that trend and start a whole new one, which I call blogging for positivity.

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