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How Negativity Makes Your Life Suck
by Guillermo Vidal | Dec 14, 2020 | Becoming Your Best Self
One of my all-time favorite characters on Saturday Night Live was Debbie Downer. Comedian Rachel Dratch played this fictional character in several SNL skits, and she was hilarious.
The formula for these spoofs was always the same, Debbie would interrupt a cheerful social gathering conversation with her negative opinion. She would then turn to the camera with a familiar frown as a muted trombone made a “wah-wah” sound.
This character turned out to be popular enough to become part of modern slang. Today people use the phrase Debbie Downer to describe someone who damps the cheerfulness of a gathering with their negative news or opinions.
Debbie Downer begets more negativity
If you understand anything about the Law of Attraction, then you know of this Quantum Physics based theory that contends emitted energy will attract the same energy in return. Therefore, Debbie Downer’s negativity will attract more things for her to feel negative about. Similarly, repetitive complaining will attract things for you to complain about.
It is hard to explain why so many like to complain about things. I understand why I do it, complaining allows me to make myself the victim. It is my way of…
