3 Reasons Why I Finally Stopped Being A Cynic

While I know I didn’t arrive in this world as a cynical baby, I still don’t know the exact moment when I adopted the belief that the world is filled with selfish, self-serving people that should never be trusted. All I know is that by the time I started college, my cynical beliefs were deeply entrenched in my mind. I had no sense of spirituality, thought there was nothing more to our existence than pure coincidence, and above all, believed that the world was out to get me. Many of these self-limiting beliefs were subconscious but they nevertheless ruled my life, making me doubt everyone’s intentions and filling my mind with fear. But then sometime in my mid-20s, I began to change. I simply could no longer ignore all the ways in which cynicism had negatively affected my life and hindered my growth. Here are the 3 reasons why I finally stopped being a cynic: 1. Negativity had overtaken my life Negativity and cynicism feed off of one another. When you believe everyone has ulterior motives, your brain looks for ways to confirm this belief, which then feeds your negativity, fuels your cynicism, and the cycle continues. Of course, I had zero awareness of this pattern. At the time, I was living life on autopilot, believing that the negative way my mind was interpreting the world around me was factual. When I finally uncovered this pattern, I dared myself to go a few days without consuming negative content (especially on social media) and to get a ...
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