What does one gain by venting their negative thoughts?
By Lethbridge Herald on August 20, 2025.
Editor,
Wow! Scott Sakatch’s column in the August 13 Herald was a “comeuppance article.” Well-written, insightful, intelligent, unbiased and hard-hitting.
Finally, somebody stating the way of the world today and how people are choosing to inhabit it. It was so refreshing to read this perspective from an individual and from different points in his life. Good on ya, Scott! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I have no idea how the world has evolved into people who are so extremely negative, resentful, and contradictory. They just flap their gums in their justified, skewed, negative point of view and have no desire to actively take action to better their situation.
Also, consider how it has made you feel once you have vented your anger, frustration, and aggravation. Probably not any better. Maybe having just made another person feel bad and berated due to your actions.
So, what did you gain as a positive result of your negative view of your situation? Nothing, and nothing will or can be done to fix your situation. The only one is you.
My advice: go through the situation, acknowledge the anger and frustration you feel, determine the level of impact in your daily life (good or bad), and then finally decide how you are going to deal with it in a way that will be beneficial to your existence going forward.
Is it something you need to voice? Will it besmirch your character? Make you look silly, petty or stupid? As the good old saying goes, keep your mouth shut and risk being seen as stupid or open it and remove all doubt.
Another thought: think of how much your day is consumed in the negative atmosphere and then think about the amount of time your day is spent in the positive atmosphere. Only you can put yourself in either category and determine how your day unfolds.
You only have yourself to blame (not phoning the Herald and bemoaning a misspelling in an article and now you feel so much better). Or you could rejoice in the fact of how rosy, joyful, and fun of a day you had. Lastly, are we not allowed to have our own minds of how we perceive our world around us? How many people do we need to fight, berate and shamein order to be satisfied? Two, 15, 1,470, or more?
Why not instead revel in the idea that we are all different and unique, and realize that we could all live in harmony by recognizing that? What a concept!
Tracy McCoy
Lethbridge
14-13
My problem Tracy is the fact that I was a banker for 32 years and can see nothing but a financial disaster facing our children and grandchildren’s future and these Reformers don’t care, while the Conservatives under Lougheed and Getty showed us all dignity and respect they show us none.
Add in what Global Warming is doing to this planet and the costs involved and our young people have a right to be concerned.
it has been put forward that our negative disposition at large has much to do with the steady bombardment of negative news (as if news must be negative to qualify as news). that is compounded by our recognising that the brunt of the negative news we are inundated with is typically stuff we can do little about, least in terms of the big picture. this creates a feeling of helplessness. worse, it creates a state of learned helplessness, and in turn, stamps many into a mode of negativity.
Well said.
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