As I live, so shall I blog: Positive is as Positive does

The last few weeks, I seem to have lost my momentum in trying to see things more positively. It has been a stressful time, to be sure.  But I really want to get back to a more upbeat attitude toward life. It makes everything easier.

So, I am sitting at my computer, trying to come up with something that I can post that would qualify as a positive subject.  So many of the blogs I read have witty, funny, interesting subjects. I want to be more like those people (can you picture young me with a little pout, pointing to the good people, while pulling at the dress hem of an adult?) .

First of all, I need to figure out where everyone gets those cute little pictures that are used in their blogs. For example, I could have inserted one of those cute pictures instead of the parenthesized explanation back there. That would have looked so much more sweet and it might have brought a smile to your face.

Where do I get those?

Then there is the part about the title. In order to have a more positive title, I will have to come up with something catchy, perhaps with an explanation of the post, or maybe something that continues the theme. There seems to be a trend of titles that could be part of the post, but get used as the title instead. Long titles also are very popular. I am going to have to make a long, catchy title. Oh, and many of the titles have an explanation. Something along the lines of “Wherein I learn the art of posting”. Would that be a good title for a post? Hmmm-this is going to take a little work.

When writing positive posts, it seems to help if there are one-line paragraphs.

To make them easy to read?

Another very common way to make a post easy to read, and to make a cute point without having to go into a lot of detail, is to include single word sentences. Single word sentences are meant to be read with a sense of “duh!” in your mind. The “duh!” is often accompanied by a smile.

If there is a very positive message, often these last two methods are combined.

Use.One.Word.Sentences.

See? Doesn’t that seem upbeat and happy? It certainly has a better chance of making both of us, writer and reader, feel more positive when reading it than a long sentence that goes over and over the point, with many commas, and more words than are necessary to make the point.

Finally, I suppose that I will have to consider the actual subject matter of the post. This blog has often been more of a journal than a themed blog. That means that it often includes my thoughts. As my thoughts are often not very positive, I guess that I will have to avoid those as post subject matter.

Many people have very funny blogs. I am not good at telling jokes. I don’t tell funny stories very well. My sense of humor is rather dry. If I tried to use funny stuff for a blog post, it would just be sad. So those types of  posts won’t make this blog more positive.

There are political blogs. I read those sometimes. I tend to read those that agree with my political opinions. My political leanings are to the left. Liberals are not likely to find much positive to post about right now. Plus,  no one really wants to read  political stuff all of the time.

There are cooks who blog. Many people include recipes, pictures of food, or reviews of restaurants they have visited. My cooking skills consist of five ways to cook hamburger, rotated through the five days of the work week. On weekends, my husband and I do drive-thru food, primarily. Nothing positive there.

There are travel blogs. I enjoy reading those. Travel is positive! I love to travel. But the last trip I took was to Oregon a year ago. The posts would be on an annual basis. I think it might be depressing to realize that I only travel once per year, and the blog would not be positive given that.

Okay, then~no thoughts. No jokes. No funny stories. No cooking. Not travel and not politics.

AAACCCKKKK! I am no good at this! I have nothing!

Why am I even writing this blog anyway?

Oh, yeah—it makes me feel positive about my life!

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