Stunning Common Theme: Ditching Meanness and Choosing Goodness
The New Year and accompanying resolutions have led me to see a remarkable emerging theme: folks are overtly turning away from mean people and meanness in general in droves. For real. And they are choosing to be with kind, giving and caring folks. Call it a new call to action as the title above suggests: “ditch mean and embrace good.”
Folks previous tolerance of bad people and bad behavior is waning. We are seeing that we aren’t selfish to act with our feet in choosing to surround ourselves with goodness.
So, please know that you are not alone if you have decide in 2025: “Enough with mean people. I am done. Time to focus on good and ditch or alienate myself from those who aren’t.” And people are actually acting on these sentiments. I am.
This newfound call to action can and does find its way into our private and more public lives, affecting with whom we surround ourselves, impacting workplace tolerance of snarky colleagues, speaking out in public settings when folks make nasty cracks in front of others, limiting news access when it features or concentrates on rude political rhetoric and rude mean spirited politicians, sharing aloud that bad behavior will no longer be tolerated wherever it occurs.
In sum, remarkable as it sounds, we are increasingly turning off bad actions and bad actors.
I was struck by the following excerpted comments from a Facebook post I just saw. Attribution goes to their author with the initials AEB. Consider them in quotes and AEB may be quoting others. I take no attribution as that belongs to others. Consider it all part of the “Let Them” or “Don’t You Dare” movements as I am learning. Many previous authors own this phraseology.
These wee excerpts speak volumes. Read them twice. Then, if you haven’t already, join the group in 2025 that is celebrating those who are kind and overtly choosing to surround themselves with goodness and good people. This isn’t selfish; this is wise, sound, smart, decent self-protective and happiness enhancing action.
Wow. Another wow. Yet another wow.
And here’s an added thought: consider the impact this new approach can have in/for improving life in our homes, in our neighborhoods, in our communities, in our schools, in our medical settings, in our other workplaces, in our politics, in our religions, in our behaviors day in and day out.
Wow!
