Overly positive people

Grand day for it.

Suits all occasions, weddings, funerals, court dates, bar mitzvahs.

The Moldy Gowl

Pricks.

jamesbere

I don't mind positivity but when someone goes over the top it gets annoying.

Me: I just got my leg blown off and my house burnt down and dog died aswell.

Positive person: a shur look on the bright side, you could off lost both legs and shur things can only get better, look at all the starving kids in Africa blah blah blah

RayM

I actually really like people like that. The kind of people who never have a bad word to say about anyone.

Although I don't know how the fuck they do it.

RayM wrote: »

I actually really like people like that. The kind of people who never have a bad word to say about anyone.

Although I don't know how the fuck they do it.

I ****ing hate them.

Especially a colleague who thank **** I rarely have to meet, but at 8am in the morning, he's fawning over you like Pippa Middleton trying to get into Prince Harrys jocks.

They can **** right off.

SEPT 23 1989

They are hiding something deeply disturbing within their souls when the positivity mask finally slips and the true nature of the beast is finally revealed all you are left with is serious jail time

Give me the glass half empty man anyday

They write all the best songs

Stheno wrote: »

I ****ing hate them.

Especially a colleague who thank **** I rarely have to meet, but at 8am in the morning, he's fawning over you like Pippa Middleton trying to get into Prince Harrys jocks.

They can **** right off.

This piqued my curiosity so I went googling.

The prince reportedly seduced Pippa with candles, Adele music, and a pasta carbonara on their first date

Jesus

The Backwards Man wrote: »

This piqued my curiosity so I went googling.

The prince reportedly seduced Pippa with candles, Adele music, and a pasta carbonara on their first date

Jesus

Did you miss the bit where Kate caught them snogging in the bathroom during the royal wedding?

Stheno wrote: »

Did you miss the bit where Kate caught them snogging in the bathroom during the royal wedding?

They didn't give me a +1 so I huffed and didn't go.

Ruu

Yes, you get a lot of them in the running world. Some pacers are too bloody perky. Yes, I'm hurting, no sheet! :mad:

RobertKK

It could be worse, better to be positive than dead.

RayM wrote: »

I actually really like people like that. The kind of people who never have a bad word to say about anyone.

Although I don't know how the fuck they do it.

They do it because of an upbringing of mollycoddling and the show of a false reality of society in the plush suburbs of south Dublin. It's called 'blocking the real societal reality out' as in a fake never never land of which politicians reside.

Bulbous Salutation

I'm coming around to the idea that being extremely positive is a pretty lovely way to live your life. It doesn't mean that there isn't setbacks, bad days, struggles, moods and periods of darkness.

We live in a really beautiful country with a very high standard of living. It isn't perfect, but there has never been a utopia. We tend to do right by people. Maybe I'm going soft in the brain, but the unrelenting negativity that drives some people isn't one that can ever have a positive outcome. Giving out about the Government, RTE, complex geopolitical situations, modern music, religion, the idea of Santa Claus. That permanent sense of outrage that seems to feed the emotional need of some people. Bizarre.

Bulbous Salutation wrote: »

I'm coming around to the idea that being extremely positive is a pretty lovely way to live your life. It doesn't mean that there isn't setbacks, bad days, struggles, moods and periods of darkness.

We live in a really beautiful country with a very high standard of living. It isn't perfect, but there has never been a utopia. We tend to do right by people. Maybe I'm going soft in the brain, but the unrelenting negativity that drives some people isn't one that can ever have a positive outcome. Giving out about the Government, RTE, complex geopolitical situations, modern music, religion, the idea of Santa Claus. That permanent sense of outrage that seems to feed the emotional need of some people. Bizarre.

No no. You're not getting the point of this thread. Most normal people wake up, appreciate their lot in life etc.

What we are talking about are people who are essentially naturally high and full of the joys of life ALL of the time.

The sort who get made homeless due to floods and embrace it as an opportunity to explore an alternative way of living type ****e.

[Deleted User]

Much prefer overly positive than overly pessimistic.

Nothing wears me out more than hearing some oul folk complaining about "it's all bloody health and safety these days" or "bloody foreigners" or some other, straight from the Daily Mail crap banging on about how great things used to be.

Stheno wrote: »

No no. You're not getting the point of this thread. Most normal people wake up, appreciate their lot in life etc.

What we are talking about are people who are essentially naturally high and full of the joys of life ALL of the time.

The sort who get made homeless due to floods and embrace it as an opportunity to explore an alternative way of living type ****e.

What good does getting annoyed about it do?

The Backwards Man wrote: »

What good does getting annoyed about it do?

Nothing, but for me, I'd prefer to be met with normal semi comatose people in the morning before I've had my coffee than Krusty the Clown

I'm a bit of a grump takes me until about 12 pm to wake up fully

Stheno wrote: »

No no. You're not getting the point of this thread. Most normal people wake up, appreciate their lot in life etc.

What we are talking about are people who are essentially naturally high and full of the joys of life ALL of the time.

The sort who get made homeless due to floods and embrace it as an opportunity to explore an alternative way of living type ****e.

Would being financial stable from their parents riches be a factor of their being High on life all the time and no matter what happens to them they will feel free to express themselves as high on life under that shielding ? I wonder, or is it a chemical thing in the brain ? or do these sort of high on life folk just eat copious amounts of figs to keep the serotonin on a constant high ?

They have either a gift, or a constant supply of riches and figs.

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Would being financial stable from their parents riches be a factor of their being High on life all the time and no matter what happens to them they will feel free to express themselves as high on life under that shielding ? I wonder, or is it a chemical thing in the brain ? or do these sort of high on life folk just eat copious amounts of figs to keep the serotonin on a constant high ?

They have either a gift, or a constant supply of riches and figs.

No this guy in particular is self employed and works his ass off.

I think that the switch that he's just like a baby, they always wake up smiling.

Mountainsandh

On one hand I like it/them, on the other hand I hate it because come on, they must be faking it.
I can't help but feel they're putting on a front, and I'm not seeing the real "them", and that generally annoys me so much I keep these interactions shallow and short.

Plus telling me all is good on a $$itty grumpy day is a sure way to pISs me off.

RayM

Bongalongherb wrote: »

They do it because of an upbringing of mollycoddling and the show of a false reality of society in the plush suburbs of south Dublin. It's called 'blocking the real societal reality out' as in a fake never never land of which politicians reside.

I know one or two people who've known plenty of suffering (recurrent illness, loss, etc), but still manage to remain relentlessly positive and never bitch or moan about anything.

Bongalongherb wrote:

I wonder, or is it a chemical thing in the brain ? or do these sort of high on life folk just eat copious amounts of figs to keep the serotonin on a constant high ?

"Hey, is that an excess of serotonin in your central nervous system, or are you just happy to see me?"

mfceiling

To quote the great philosopher Karl Pilkington...

"You need a bit of the badness to appreciate the goodness"

Sh1tbag OToole

Bulbous Salutation wrote: »

Giving out about the Government, RTE, complex geopolitical situations, modern music, religion, the idea of Santa Claus. That permanent sense of outrage that seems to feed the emotional need of some people. Bizarre.

I am weary of people who don't give out about anything or seem to brush it off or shoehorn in another torrent of positivity when you ask them about something like the government or RTE or something similar that could serve as the benchmark for being permanently sh1te

Mountainsandh

RayM wrote: »

I know one or two people who've known plenty of suffering (recurrent illness, loss, etc), but still manage to remain relentlessly positive and never bitch or moan about anything.
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They must be suppressing it. Good for them, they found a way to deal with it, and maybe the power of auto suggestion is strong with them and they genuinely have no sequels ... but I think in a lot of cases it's just a veneer.

NachoBusiness

The 'Cheer up, it might never happen' crowd are the real bastards.

martingriff

Mountainsandh wrote: »

They must be suppressing it. Good for them, they found a way to deal with it, and maybe the power of auto suggestion is strong with them and they genuinely have no sequels ... but I think in a lot of cases it's just a veneer.

I find that attitude of yours awful to be honest. Why do they need to be suppressing it just because they have had 1 or 2 tumbles they have to be down in life why. I like seeing the world in a have full at lest light and not half empty. It does not mean they do not have bad times or sometimes feel down they see life for what you make it and YES you may hate it but it could be worse.

Azalea

I have a few friends who make a point of never complaining about anything, or if they do describe a difficult situation they're going through (and two of them have been through some terrible stuff this year) they always punctuate it with "Ah shur, could be worse" etc. They don't do it in a preachy way - they never impose their take on others, and I admire their attitude, but I do say to them it's ok to feel pissed off, it's ok to feel sad, it's ok to give out at times, it's ok not to feel obliged to count their blessings.

I would just love to know the elixir of their constant happy stable high on life felling. I wake up like many others some days over the moon and happy for no reason all day, and the next day I do feel like absolute death and so the cycle goes up and down, so to keep a constant high on life attitude and well-being feeling going all the time is hard to fathom.

The elixir of a constant high happiness every day is something that could turn this planet into a bunch of happy feckers constantly high on life, or E forever of which is not possible as the good feeling centres of the brain diminish after long highs of bliss and happiness. Well, if you are one of these people that is always on a natural high then you have something damn stable and good if it doesn't fluctuate like the majority of folk.

LeeLooLee

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Would being financial stable from their parents riches be a factor of their being High on life all the time and no matter what happens to them they will feel free to express themselves as high on life under that shielding ? I wonder, or is it a chemical thing in the brain ? or do these sort of high on life folk just eat copious amounts of figs to keep the serotonin on a constant high ?

They have either a gift, or a constant supply of riches and figs.

A lot of the overly positive people I know just have charmed lives. It's easy to be happy and positive when you have great health, a great lifestyle and loads of money to fall back on. They simply haven't ever experienced things not going the way they want. I have a lot of respect for people who have gone through terrible times and still maintain a positive outlook.