Are you a Positive or Negative person ?

Is your glass half full or half empty ?
My default is negative, When life frustrates me, I opt for destruction or termination - sadly I almost always regret it.

How do you release your frustrations - do you give up, throw stuff away, break things, sulk, shout and curse ?
Or do you turn negatives into positives and see failure or disappointment as an opportunity?

Is your music downbeat or upbeat usually. Does your music reflect your personality or do you use it to escape from who you really are ?

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Wow good questions Shamika!!! I will have to think about that and come back later!

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I'm a 'room temp' kinda guy. I will usually go with whatever temperature the room is at and try to connect with people first. I do like counterpoints or playing the devil's advocate so to speak too. I'm generally positive to neutral.

I will try and turn negatives into positives. but I'm also like a volcano, I will let things go and go until one day I erupt. that doesn't happen often because I'm good at letting things go.

music might reflect my mood, or something "current". most times it's just a 'spark' that I'll fan into a small flame, then upload to Wikiloops in hopes that some help turn into a full-blown raging fire 🔥

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I guess I am an optimist, and in some cases naively so, but on the other hand I am aware of stuff and I am suspicious so that tends to even it out.



I am definitely not one to keep my feelings inside, so cursing and swearing, sometimes throwing stuff or breaking, it's all there. There are a few things and people that just mentioning them gets me spitting fire :D . But in my older days I am a bit more relaxed. B)



I think my music probably reflects my personality, rough and dirty, simple rock. Not to say I am dirty, I wash every day, but I am definitely not a soft gentle sensitive guy, and I like to play rough and dirty blues rock or, to show my somewhat complex side a bit of prog rock. I used to play a lot when I was younger, used to turn my frustration into songs but that is long gone. I try not to get frustrated as much anymore :D

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rootshell and TeeGee - your responses were really interesting and honest, thank you both :W:W

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Hmm, tough question. I tend to prefer the extremes. I`m either very positive about something or am very good at something or am very negative about or bad at something. My middle ground doesn`t really exist. Take my bass playing. It`s bad (in the sense of not good) and I love it.

Funny that this doesn`t really translate into my taste of music which is rather conservative. Likewise the tracks I choose to work on here. Seems I need the framework of "normality" inside of which I can do my dirty musical deeds :-)

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I have to answer the question because there is no answer. I used to love negativity, but when I turned 40, something happened. Now I love positivity. A person can change, although I didn't believe that before. (Well, I'm as positive as a Finn can be 😂).

Heavy music is still the best, let that be the only negative thought in my head 😁

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MySounds and Aito <3 I'm so interested in what you both have to say, I guess it's not a straight forward question. I do believe that there are times when being negative can bring about satisfyingly positive feelings :)

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This is a very existential question :). I am a lively person, loving honesty and justice. Suffice to say that my life has not always been simple because the outside world has played with these aspirations. We make mistakes by being stubborn. I always recognize them, which can be taken as a weakness. For my part, I use humor on myself and it turns into positivity.
Now that I have reached the age of "wisdom", I am peaceful and let my guitar express my anger. This may seem surprising when you listen to me, given the softness of my playing. She speaks better than me, and it has been a real passion for her for 33 years (a Gibson Lucille). Becoming a father at 51, this event really changed my way of being. What would it be without this event? I don't know...but I'm happy and I've regained a taste for contact.;)

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"loving honesty and justice" seems like a positive way to go, however, as these things become rarer in society, negativity creeps in :(
They say that hindsight is a wonderful thing but no-one makes mistake on purpose and what seems like a positive move at the time often comes back to haunt us :(
Music is odd because when it's written/played in anger (like a protest song) it will draw in the ears of people striving for "honesty and justice" so is a protest a negative or positive reaction ?

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Shamika

Protest is never negative and anger not necessarily if it can be contained through reflection. The past is a constructive weapon if we only use it to improve the future using only our experience. But nothing is simple, you must first learn to fight against yourself. it is important to cultivate wisdom, otherwise the past will haunt us. I experienced very hard things from the outside world for a very dear person and only wisdom helped us.

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Observe the 'I thought'. Who feels good or bad? Realise that you cannot grasp the origin of 'I thought' and therefore it is an illusion.

In other words. Step back and change your perspective. Give your attention not to the small mind, but to the wisdom of the big mind that we can all discover within ourselves.

Ancient Buddhist wisdom :)

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I do enjoy Buddhist wisdom - simple responses to complicated concepts. I don't think it's a question of feeling "good or bad" It's more about projecting your mind forward in a positive or negative way. Buddhism may address the positive... but 'stinking thinking' is ingrained in the human psyche.

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I am a positive person in my outlook though my close loved ones irritate me sometimes. My worldview is that I look forward to another life after this one!

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