{"id":87321,"date":"2022-05-17T21:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zacharyninteman.com\/?p=87321"},"modified":"2022-04-17T21:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:25:18","slug":"promote-what-you-love-instead-of-bashing-what-you-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zacharyninteman.com\/promote-what-you-love-instead-of-bashing-what-you-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Promote What You Love Instead of Bashing What You Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>This may sound hippy-ish, but we need to spread more love in the world.<\/p>\n Every time I turn the news on, listen to talk radio, read a headline, really view any media, it is always negative. Always negative<\/strong>. Maybe once in a blue moon a news will have a marine returning home to his family after a long deployment – but that is very far and few. Good news doesn’t sell, bad news does. And when we think about the fact that what goes into our mind, comes out in our actions, we live in a negative world.<\/p>\n The people I run into that are genuinely happy in their life<\/a>, like the story of the marine returning home, is far and few. Everyone else seems to walk around with their head in the ground pissed off at the world.<\/p>\n And I don’t blame them given all the horrid stories going on in our life.<\/p>\n But I want to change it. I want people to be filled with passion for life. I want people to be excited for what they are doing.<\/p>\n One of the easiest ways I know to start<\/a> this process is stop being against<\/strong><\/em> something and start being for<\/strong><\/em> something.<\/p>\n Being against something is easy – anyone can do it. It is easy to hate something and be negative against it. Everyone seems to be against something.<\/p>\n In the hopes of spreading more positivity and love in the world, I need you to be FOR\u00a0something. I need you to support a cause, not go against something like the masses do.<\/p>\n I was reminded of this today, which sparked this post. Ellen Degeneres,<\/a> posted a video today about her talking to an article written about her. Some pastor wrote an article to the Christian Post about how he thinks hollywood’s has\u00a0a gay agenda. Again, if you don’t know Ellen, she is gay. The original article (read it here<\/a>) was full of information how we should be AGAINST<\/strong> the gay agenda of Hollywood. Ellen’s rebutle (watch it here<\/a>) shows that she is FOR<\/strong> kindness and compassion.<\/p>\n If the original article’s author spent the time writing an article for what he is FOR, it would have a far different effect. Instead of creating hate and bigotry like it does now, it could have created a positive approach to his efforts and may even made an impact in the world (gasp!). Ellen could have said she was AGAINST bible-thumping bigots, but she instead said she was FOR compassion and kindness, spreading a message for many to hear, be open and hopefully adopt.<\/p>\nPromote What You Love Instead Of Bashing What You Hate<\/h1>\n