Mind your thoughts

There’s this ou that I get to interact with every now and then (I won’t mention any names). He comes across as a fairly decent, cool, interesting guy most of the time, except for a few traits that I’ve picked up which annoy the heck out of me. Let’s call this ou “Outie-Guy”. Now “Outie-Guy” is the kind of ou I could have a phat-chat with at the pub or a cool, light-hearted praatjie with at a braai or something, but that’s probably about it. Unfortunately, “Outie-Guy” is also what I’d refer to as the archetype of a “born-again negatron”. The Coloured community is abundant in “Outie-guy” types and the behaviour and mindset of the loathsome “Outie-Guy” stereotype is sadly very dominant where I’m from.

A “negatron” is a word I came across at one of these positive thought seminars a few years back and which I’ve since assimilated into my vocab. It is used to define somebody who is mentally hard-wired to think negative thoughts, most likely from a very early age. You can easily detect a “negatron” is in your midsts as they’ll be the one that is hellbent on shooting down any attempt at positive progress. For every reason that you give why something can and should be done, they will spin elaborate, weak, ridiculous reasons why it should not be done. This is their nature. When you talk victory, possibilities, solutions and opportunity, they will talk failure, impossibilities, problems and obstacles.

On their own, a “negatron” is a pretty harmless being. It is once they’ve mastered the art of “negatronic” disruption and graduate to the levels of “born-again negatron” that you should start running for the hills. A “born-again negatron” is a “negatron” with the uncanny ability to “evangilise” you with their negativity. They will bombard your senses with fallacious hearsay and drivel and make you a believer in their negative folly. Before you know it, they will have assailed the perimeter of your mind which guards your hopes, dreams and ambitions and in no time, they’ll have you believing that these things which you hold dear will never be achieved or are not worth pursuing.

Many boulders and pillars of strength in our communities have been sandblasted by the corrosive, caustic words of “born-again negatrons” that they have been reduced to pebbles of their former selves, hesitant, doubtful and reluctant. Heck, back in the day, even I have had to pimp slap some sense into myself after some extended periods of exposure to some rather skillful “born-again negatrons”. It’s a dirty game cos sometimes, “negatrons” could be in your family, your circle of friends…heck, you reading this right now could be a closet-negatron unintentionally prone to negatronic tendencies…but it’s not too late. I have a solution which I’ve developed over the years and which has kept me fairly safe from falling prey to the life-force sapping effects of “negatronic” influences.

I want you to think of every single niggling doubt you’ve ever had about your abilities, potential, talents and future. Every time people told you that you shouldn’t; that you can’t or have made you doubt yourself for no good reason other than to echo and transmit their own fears, failures and insecurities, bring those thoughts to the surface of your mind. Now, I want you to pick up all these little pieces of rubbish thoughts from the floor of your mind, squash it into a big ball and with all the energy your infintely powerful mind can conjure, I want you to SKOP IT out of your mind like you are the best goal-keeper in the 2010 world cup.

Now, in your mind’s eye, as you see that crumpled ball of rubbish, negative, potential wasting thoughts disappear into a speck over the horizon in the valley of your mind, I want your mind’s voice to say a loud, reverberating, purging, life-affirming “VITSEK!!!”

…”V-I-T-S-E-K!!!”

Aaaah…feeling better? Repeat this exercise as often as you like or whenever you feel your mind starting to fill-up with all sorts of “negatronic” rubbish (it happens all the time and when you least expect it). How does that feel? Can you feel that rush of positive energy connecting the once obscured dots in your mind and painting a picture for you? Good…now get back to work and have yourself a super-fantastic day devoid of negative influences, moegoes and other stchoopids trying to hold you back.

Make way world…there’s a Bruinou.com member coming through and if you’re a “negatron” of dubious intent, BEWARE cos you might get 2-feeted.