I just read the most inspiring post of a lifetime and something I personally have been asking myself as of late.  The post is basically about being productive in the world and spreading positive energy and DOING something to contribute to the good rather than actively seeking out hate and negativity.

The blog:  Okay. Fine. Dammit.

In this post entitled, “What are you contributing with all that hate?”, the blogger acknowledges the difference of being a productive member of a community and one who finds time to do all of the ridiculing.  One of my favorite quotes from this article:

“Whether you are writing dirty campaign ads or forwarding hateful emails, whether you are commenting anonymously on blogs or creating entire websites designed to attack other bloggers, whether you are secretly reading other people’s words only to dissect and ridicule them, I want you to ask yourself — what are you contributing? What have you got to show for yourself? Where are your gifts to the world? Where are your words that others will be inspired to quote? What will your obituary say?”

Dang.  I just want to shout it to the roof tops!  I want to spin this into a song, a mantra if you will.  It is so easy to criticize and to take and take and take, but what do you have in the end of it all?  Nothing but bad feelings and sadness.  Is it really so hard to say something nice?  Or rather, what makes it easy to say bad things?

Life is short.  So short in fact, that to waste one more minute on sadness, one more minute on a depressive state of hate is too much time spent badly.

The message here is to find your happy.  Be happy.  Be you.