“You Are Being Rescued, Do Not Resist”: 40 Of The Best Ominous Positivity Posts From This Online Page
InterviewYou’re loved. You matter. You’re worth more than you know. You WILL be happy. You’d better believe it. Or else! This is the type of aggressive optimism that the ‘Ominous Positivity Memes’ online project bonks you on the head with. And we can’t help but love it.
We’re featuring some of their best, most positive memes that made us laugh and smile (no, seriously, we can’t stop, and it’s starting to scare us). Scroll down and upvote the memes that you enjoyed the most. You WILL enjoy them. They WILL make you feel better about yourself. You have no choice!
Sadness, go away. It’s time for self-care now. And remember... stay hydrated to take care of your meatsuits, Dear Goblins.
Bored Panda reached out to the founder of 'Ominous Positivity Memes,' Chris Ryan, who was kind enough to walk us through how the project got started, why he thinks it's so successful, why posts telling people to stay hydrated are so popular, and how all of these memes, at their core, resonate with our inner desire to help other people.
"I think everyone wants to help people, even if they are deep cynics. It's just that sometimes the only person someone can help is themselves. These memes reflect that. We can't do as much individually to save the dissolving ozone layer but we can make sure that we eat, move, and stay hydrated. We also want to help our friends even if we can't help ourselves," Chris told us.
"So in order to do that we turn to encouragement. We need a message that will resonate with our peers and these slightly threatening messages of inevitable hope work better (for some) than flowery messages of a hope that is something hard to imagine is actually true. Self-worth can be a large goal for some people. I think for some it's more about just surviving so they need this message of, 'I'm gonna survive no matter what' and if seeing these memes that they can send their friend to say, 'You're gonna survive too and that's a threat' help then great!" Scroll down for Bored Panda's full and exclusive interview with Chris.
Bored Panda also got in touch with Psychologist and Wellbeing Consultant Lee Chambers, who is the founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing and PhenomGames. We had a chat about toxic positivity, what it is, and why it's harmful to our mental health. Read on for our full interview with Lee as well.
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My chihuahua tries his best to intimidate cars and i can only aspire to be so foolishly bold.
OMG YEEEES. When my mini pig was younger, he waited for some construction machines and loud cars to start leaving our house, to run and yell/bark at them!! (This happened MANY times). It was so cute and soooo brave
Load More Replies...You definitely forgot their guts to "teeth clatter" (whatever you call it properly in English, in German it's Zähneklappern), so threatening their humans for more food. Ours do that when screaming is not enough to get another treat. 🙈 [And, sorry, I have to disagree with "zero" defensive/offensive abilities, though. When you put a less socialized piggy in a group of others, bad conflicts can arise, even with biting and fighting. Often it takes space, time and food. And more time. And when they bite hard, it's really painful. Ask my vet 🙈 Sorry, didn't mean to "smarty-pants around" and failed badly 🤣]
First I've heard "smarty-pants around," which is hilarious, but now you've got me worried I do it too because your comment didn't seem smarty-pants to me at all!
Load More Replies...I had guinea pigs as a child and wow they can be LOUD if they want something. Great personalities and attitude. But they are also supersweet with really charming faces. Love their "purring" when you pet them.
Mine purr And "talk" to each other during night, its sweet to hear. Funny even when the older one got a hickup And the younger one murmurred everytime she hickuped
Load More Replies...Chris, the founder of 'Ominous Positivity Memes' told Bored Panda that the project is something that he cares about deeply. "It has become my entire brand and online presence. While I didn't coin the term Ominous Positivity, as far as I can tell, I'm the only one running any socials dedicated to Ominous Positivity Memes," he said.
Ominous Positivity, as a phenomenon, originally started with user Spillybun's post on Tumblr: "You will be okay. You have no choice." Chris shared with us that the term, Ominous Positivity, instantly resonated with him and left a deep mark. "I recall seeing it on Tumblr many years ago. I kinda expected it to catch on, but I guess it never quite did. That original Tumblr post came across my Facebook feed again sometime in 2019 and I shared it with just the hashtag #ominouspositivity. That feeling of resonance stuck, so over a few months I shared a few more things with that hashtag and people really seemed to enjoy them."
I love this image in theory, but I think it might draw the wrong sort of attention when I do the grocery shopping
At least the line up will evaporate in front of you
Load More Replies...I'd like a bow and be able to ride a horse. My horse and the wolves are friends, and I communicate mentally with the wolves, they send me images (yes, I am mixing up some fantasy novels here, this was Perin? With the yellow eyes) and magic... yes!
Load More Replies...Despite not being a girl, I still want this. I think everyone wants this.
and I for one welcome our new Forest Spectre Moss Queens...and their doggos of course...
Maybe there are 2,3,4 or 55 different types of women? Maybe some of them want to llok like a Bond girls, some like a wild goddess and some just want so seat in an armchair and watch their favorite show?
55? Many there are as many dreams as there are women.
Load More Replies...Some of them are now signposts. They are still helping people even in death.
This goes well with my personal belief that if the bar you set for a good day is placed on the floor you can always just crawl (or roll, or drag yourself by a rope, or get pulled across by a pet whatever) over it if you have to. Stop jumping through hoops to feel good about yourself, getting out of bed is enough of a win sometimes. <3
Or brushing your hair, eating something other than Cheetos, etc.
Load More Replies...Meh, climbing Everest is all about ego. Stay home and do not pollute a mountain.
Demotivational speeches are much more inspiring, true and wise than positive b******t.
There are so many dead body's on Everest when the summer comes they send patrols out to recover them. And all the garbage left behind.
Realizing that there was an audience that resonated with these sorts of posts, Chris officially started the 'Ominous Positivity Memes' page on Facebook on July 29, 2019. "I had saved plenty of content over the months to get the ball rolling. I figured I'll just keep posting what I've got and what I enjoy and whatever comes of it cool. I was not expecting it to blow up as fast as it did. We hit 10k within a month and 100k in less than a year," he said that the project continues to grow. OPM spread to other major social media sites and the founder even started up an official merch store.
The founder of OPM revealed that most of the project's audience is made up of people from the US, mostly between 20 and 35 years of age. Bored Panda wanted to get Chris' opinion on why the memes are so popular. He believes it's due to a variety of reasons.
"Especially us Millennials were raised with the message that a positive attitude can overcome all. Think of the classic cat pulling itself up poster with the words, 'Hang in there!' Well, all of the positive thinking in the world didn't stop us from inheriting a ruined economy and planet from previous generations nor stop the near onslaught of 'once in a lifetime' tragedies. So as a whole we tend to be cynical now," he said.
I mean, they're right, they're fungi. Neither plants nor animals. Some can save us, kill us, make us hallucinate, some glow in the dark, some look like pancakes on a tree, some look like dirty penises. They're bloody fascinating and nobody's allowed to play them down.
My yard has some new mushrooms. They look like black jellybeans on a skinny stalk. I couldn't find them in an image search.
Load More Replies...Reading a book about them, late in life but I am wanting to learn. If I knew how weird they were when I was younger, I'd have pursued a career in them. Fantastic Funghi on Netflix is just that, fantastic. Also funghi are the future, packaging materials, ethical leather substitute, treatments for depression and substance abuse. Just the tip of the iceberg.
Former Biotech student here. Any conversation about any type of fungus being used it the lab was shut down asap, they didn't want to risk it getting everywhere, since some can just kinda spread their spores and are impossible to get rid us, very much like glitter.
Mushrooms will inherit the earth, sooner rather than later the way things are going
And some mushrooms have magic in them and will give you insight into the universe if you eat them.
I am not "wasting my life away 9 hours at the time at a job that overworks and underpays me, that shows not gratitude for my efforts but scolds me for my smallest failures", no, I am Mr Data, using my IT knowledge for the benefit of the USS Enterprise.
"I am not scrolling aimlessly through Bored Panda...I am finding fragments of positive mojo Xp to level up empathy metres and deplete apathy charges..."
Can a person be a spirit animal? If so, I think you're mine. 😂
Load More Replies...I am not "pruning the ivy on the back yard fence", I am "saving Yorkshire, and possibly the rest of Britain, from strangulation by alien lifeforms from the planet Zrrghll17"
You are not "taking a dump," you are "casting a spell of elimination" or if it's a big 'un, "birthing a homunculus."
Oh dear God, where's the mindscrubber when I need it?!?!
Load More Replies...I am not "doing schoolwork" I am "reading the ancient scrolls of knowledge to outwit the enemy known as college"
I am not petting the neighbours cat. I am evaluating its pelt and meat for sale and food
I am not "shouldn't be upset all the time and wanna die because I'm apparently too pretty to be sad" I'm "too fly to die."
I am not feeding the stray cats, I am preparing my ferocious feline army.
A very mentally unstable disco ball, but still a disco ball.
The panic at the disco was in the ball this whole time
Load More Replies...Hanged high above people enjoying their lives to the fullest while you are doomed to the life of meaningless existence slowly rotating before the inevitable end in the dumpster heap broken into a million pieces.
It's better if you drop down in the middle of those dancing and doing that finger pointing thing while The Bee Gees sang Stayin' Alive in an sound only dogs and John Travolta could hear. And he was pointing to the sound system because he thought his ears were going to start bleeding on that white polyester pantsuit that he just bought. No stain has ever been removed from polyester, the fabric of the disco era.
Load More Replies...Hey, I bought my woman a solar powered vibrator.... seeing how she thinks the sun shines out of her ass.... I should save a fortune on batteries...
Only if all your problems just happen to fit together perfectly. Disco balls aren't made of broken glass. They are made of precisely cut mirrors. Not a bunch of random screw ups.
"Messages of, 'Hang in there!' and, 'You can do it!' are not met well because they sound like the fake things we were told through gritted teeth. We can't believe in being positive anymore because either it didn't work for us as a generation or more individually just remind of us the lies we were fed growing up. So the art and comedy, mostly through memes, has begun to reflect that cynicism." Chris explained.
"Posts threatening people to drink water and stay hydrated always do well because guaranteed my audience is overworked and dehydrated. But feel-good posts of, 'Drink some water please' and, 'Gotta stay hydrated out there!' don't work and are met with eye rolls and scoffs because like, yeah, we know. However, we CAN hear, peer to peer, the message of, 'You better drink some water to take care of your sentient meat bag, you little goblin' or, 'Stay hydrated cause you're not leaving this terrible planet before I do' because it reflects the reality of struggles we are already going through."
Well that depends on what the meow, hiss ,hiss was for and I hope you are not taking me to the vet for that! I'll be good!
Load More Replies...I come from a long line of people who have literally survived through sheer stubbornness. My great grandfather has gotten over 6 kinds of cancer and survived through this trait. My mother is raising 11 kids with a spouse in the military, living through sheer stubbornness. My grandparents have stayed married for 36 years, again through sheer stubbornness. I have been slowly overcoming my depression, also through sheer stubbornness.
It was going to be a check-up but after that, your nuts are coming off
dang didn't realize how bad I needed this today- my dysphoria is acting up and it helps to have a reminder to take care of my body even if I don't like it
I try, but sometimes I hate myself so much. It's my brain, it's my genes, it's the fact the world around me is so dead set on destroying me. Sometimes I think I should let it.
I'm going down hissing and spitting but my ass is still going to the vet!
Its never a good idea to give the food sack to your pet. I keep opening my fridge.
For decades I've been able to appreciate all the functions that my body is able to undertake, which has helped drown out the negative societal and internal messages. Flex a foot. Bend a knee. Chew a food. Look at an object. Type on a keyboard. Appreciate the magic of these tiny things.
Then really blow your mind and go outside to look at every living thing
Load More Replies...i had and ultrasounnd of my kidneys done.. my doctor told my the look perfect and beauiful just like in a textbook.. it was a weird compliment but i took it anyway
I know what you mean but in reverse. Had a chest x-ray and the radiologist said it was a very average chest. I had to work on not feeling a teeny bit offended!! Silly, but there you go!
Load More Replies...My body holds all the organs I have left in place! It's like when you try on last years clothes and something still fits - so its only a scarf you gotta start somewhere!
I remember everything... it's just in random order and never when I need it.
Load More Replies...And it holds that dress up just perfectly... Always do you! There are those of us who admire what you may perceive as imperfection but we look at it as being unique! Love it!
I'm fat, I like myself, I'm easy going, soft and squishy. I don't give a rip what anyone else thinks. I like me.
Sometimes it takes forever to read a page with these cold reader behind you!
Load More Replies...We seem to have mischievous spirit in our home. They have target-specific habits too: all of my interactions with them are friendly, soothing even. The other day was the anniversary of a very traumatic event and I was trying some techniques to stave off a panic attack when I smelled their scent right next to me, and a solid weight pressed gently down on my shoulder, like someone was giving me comforting pats. It honestly helped. Husband had no interest or belief in the supernatural and was very vocal about it. Ghostie will give him jump-scares by flinging things across the room or running their finger down his neck/spine 🤭. Poor guy has been forced to alter his viewpoint: ghosts might be real but without a doubt are annoying arseholes hehe. Btw yep I'm aware many don't believe in spirits and I understand and respect that. Just so happens that due to personal experiences, I do 🤷🏽♀️
I have similar experiences, but with 2 of my dead cats that I had a deep emotional bond with. One kept me company as a child, since he had always allowed me to do whatever I wanted and used to sleep with me at night. The other keeps me company as I'm becoming an adult, and I can always feel his presence with me as I'm going through tough times, as he has kept me company through such times in life.
Load More Replies...I've talked about my ghost numerous times, but his last act really surprised me. I haven't actually been in real clothes for days. I fell asleep on the couch and when I woke up, there was a pair of pants and a shirt right in front of me. They had been on the bottom of clean laundry in the bedroom.
I'm not gonna go there... my ghost girl Kaitlyn reads faster than I do....
I want the ghost and my house to bond like this. Y'hear that, Mr.?! I will talk to you someday when I get a ouija board and we will read together!!!
Please don't mess around with a ouija board. You might open a door to evil spirits. I'm serious.
Load More Replies...My ghost would have to learn to read fast i dont slow down my reading for anyone or anything
Psychologist Lee, from the UK, explained to Bored Panda that toxic positivity means always trying to focus on the positive and how this causes negative thoughts, feelings, and emotions to be suppressed and ignored. This, as you can guess, is very unhealthy. "As human beings, we have the full range of emotions, from deepest despair to blazing joy for a reason, and neglecting to find healthy ways to express our negative feelings is damaging and can cause us to become unaware of our mental health," the expert told us.
"Forcing positivity can keep us doing things that are not serving us, stop us from seeing when we are being exploited, and have us ignoring warning signs, putting us in danger and becoming less self-aware. It can also prevent us from accepting that some things just aren’t great, and it’s that acceptance that often allows us to move through this period and see a brighter future," Lee shared exactly how toxic positivity can prevent us from growing, healing, adapting, and improving as people.
I dunno, evil villains always want to improve by being more evil. That's getting better in their eyes :D
Load More Replies...This needs better phrasing, because it could be read as, "If you're scared, you're a bad person." Perhaps, "If you're scared THAT you're a bad person..."
Thanks for that 'that'. I could not understand what it was trying to say.
Load More Replies...This is problematic though, because the bad people will think that "getting better" means doing more of what they're doing, ie bad stuff. Look at the current move toward right-wing fascism and autocracy all over the world. Most of those people are sincere. They believe the utter b******t their media tells them. They think they're "getting better" by stopping the bad people (in the US, that's non-Christians, etc) from voting and influencing society. So they will take this sort of quote as affirmation of everything they're doing when in fact, they are the WORST people.
That is not entirely true. There's lots of people regretting bad things they have done but keep on doing them anyways
There's a great quote from The Walking Dead -- one character is talking about how he's such a bad man but he carries of the weight of it. Another character responds, ""You talk about the weight of what you have to do, how you can handle it. A bad man, someone truly evil? They're light as a feather."
When we are bad and we care that we are bad... We're halfway home...
This one actually bothers me. True courage does not come from walking in confidently to make things better. It comes from the fear that it won't work, but the risk of making things better out weighs the harm that can happen to us.
They really don't. They are always sure everyone else is wrong/screwed up/an idiot.
I remember doing it rolling down the stairs. Wouldn't recommend.
To this day, if I see a wide stretch of grass or a large empty carpeted space, there's a physical urge in my body to fling myself down and roll. Childhood was... a while ago... and yet this feeling remains 😅
Sounds to me like you’d be a favourite relative to any small children in your family☺️
Load More Replies...I don't need this sign to make me do that except these days I will basically lie down, roll down the hill and grunt
On a trip to the UK with college students from Florida. We saw a steep hill, and we all yelled at the bus driver to stop. He did, but I had to explain that most of Florida is flat, and we just wanted to roll down the hill. We all did 3 or 4 times. The driver came to visit me in Florida, and he was completely blown away by the landscape.
Reminds me of the house in Michigan who put out a "Ministry of Silly Walks" sign in front of their house instructing passersby to do their best funny walk. They record and put the best ones on Instagram. :)
It's a really steep hill. Broken ankles and sprained tendons are part of the fun
Load More Replies...This is a lovely message. Imagine how strong you are if you can make it through another day!
Oh my gosh yessss! I say we collectively go on Twitter and like this
Load More Replies...There are days I get through just through sheer bloody mindedness.
Load More Replies...As someone who goes through cycles of depression like clockwork, it's exactly like this for me. I'm on antidepressants as it's major clinical depression and panic disorder and I have more normal days than lows now that I've found the right medicine and a good care team, but lows are just going to be a part of my life. My brain and the chemicals in my body make it that way and there's not much I can do but fight it tell myself each day that I'm not dying or giving up that day and f**k you brain, I'm going to live JUST until tomorrow and see what that day's like and then we'll see. And so on it goes until I drag myself out of the hole again and I find stability again. Its exhausting sometimes, but I've been doing it since I can remember and it's just the way it is. If I really want to kill myself, I can always wait until tomorrow right? So let's just wait one more day. That's usually what gets me through the darkest.
I commented on an earlier post how 4 generations of my family now have survived out of sheer stubbornness. My great grandpa, who survived 6 kinds of cancer. My grandmother, who injured her neck and spine several times but recovered. My mother, who is raising 11 kids while my father is away often (he's in the military). Me, who has to keep marching onwards to my destiny, whatever that may be. All I know is that it will be glorious.
You come from a family of strong people! Now I understand why I like and admire you so much. X
Load More Replies...This is why I'm still alive. I'm too stubborn to take my self out. F**k you depression. Your not winning.
Even in my darkest days, i was still curios what will happened the next day.
I've had two very dear friends who suffered all their lives with depression, and finally succumbed to their illness. Please, if you're feeling like you can't make it, know that you are loved by many more people than you think, and reach out for help. You have to fight, but you don't have to fight alone.
"I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me"...song lyrics from This Year by The Mountain Goats (look it up, trust me on this one), and also the life motto I have tattooed on my upper arm. Because some days, I just need that reminder; You've got this
"And toxic positivity can deny us being our true selves, forcing us to assume a 'good vibes only' identity, and stop us from asking for help or being vulnerable when we are struggling. We need to foster a level of authentic positivity and gratitude, to help us generate hope and optimism, and celebrate the good things that happen. But if we don’t let the negative energy inside of us have recognition and release, it will impact our self-esteem and confidence in the long run, and have us avoiding the reality of the life we lead," Lee said.
Meanwhile, Chris, the founder of OPM, definitely thinks that there can be such a thing as too much positivity, too. "Toxic positivity comes up a lot in my comments and I think most people misunderstand the concept. Toxic positivity is saying that you have to be positive no matter what. It's saying that you aren't allowed to recognize the negative or reflect on it. It's all love and, 'Good vibes only.'
Anyone else read that as *Whore* rather than *Who 're*? No? Just me, then.
Paradoxically, he ALSO hates himself. He is a bottomless well of need. He can never get enough affirmation because he secretly despises everything he is and does.
Load More Replies...I don't know if that would always be a good thing. A certain orange man has apparently ODed on this.
They had to evolve cloacas because they kept getting punched in the d**k.
Load More Replies...punch a velociraptor in the d**k is at the op of every to-do list I have ever made, never been checked. Yet.
Slay that dragon... or don't! Make friends with that dragon and teach your enemies that you are not to f****d with because you have pet dragon and that toast is crunchy!
"Kill anyone who says you don't and build a throne from their bones" I'm dying! Lolllll
I’m really not sure why but it bothers me when I see people out and about in their pajamas.
At this time, when there's so much glorious athleisure wear, it is too much to work pjs in public.
Load More Replies...Start a new life overseas and wait for the inevitable Netflix doc about your disappeance
I read something a long time ago, a person with severe depression was thinking about ending it, but said "then I realized I don't have to die... I can just change everything. I can change my name. Quit my job. Break off unhappy relationships. Move to a new city. It doesn't seem so extreme if you consider the alternative"
Leave your phone in another room sometimes. That way, you don't have to think of reasons to tell people you couldn't get back to them right away. You had a reason. You left your phone in another room. Doesn't matter whether it was on purpose or by accident. Give yourself at least one phone-free hour a day. Sometimes I give myself the whole day. The world has not yet ended because I ignored my phone for a day.
I used to "lose" my phone (forgot it in a pocket) and I noticed it was actually great, so I started doing it on purpose. Ended with some weird conversations like "oh yeah jfytk I plan to lose my phone for the next 3 days"
Load More Replies...It started out fine, the, then this person started sounding like a fire obsessed psychopath
The founder of OPM believes that justice can't exist if we ignore the realities of life. "Something love is is fierce and harsh. So not only does Ominous Positivity cut the saccharine nature of some flowery language of positivity but it also says, 'Yeah things are kind of [bad] right now, but that won't stop me from being a force of love and good in this world so watch out!' It allows for the recognition of the bad and making the choice to not succumb to it anyway whereas toxic positivity says to ignore all the bad in the blind hope of things being better."
One of Chris' pet peeves is to see the people in the comments of a post like 'Things will get better. You have no choice' saying that it's allegedly an example of toxic positivity. They're missing the point, the founder told Bored Panda. "These posts on OPM are not saying, 'Ignore the bad, you just have to be positive,' they are saying, 'Things will actually get better whether you believe in that or not. The world doesn't revolve around you and doesn't care what you think. It's gonna keep on improving no matter what!' And there is some comfort in releasing the sense of personal responsibility that like, my own attitude determines how well things around me are or will become. That can be a lot of pressure that frankly doesn't need to be there."
Because your welcome implies it might have been a problem but you did it away. No problem means you were fine helping them period
Been trying to get the phrase "He's a real Buffoon" to catch on, hoping, praying that one day, all the world shall know the glory of saying the word Buffoon
I just say "yep" or "sure" because I don't want them to think they're welcome to ask again.
I’ve been taking this attitude at work lately. It’s not going over well, and I’m really enjoying it.
It is true. Unsurprisingly, mandatory misery and deliquescence are not good for you.
It took retirement for this to sink in. For the first time in decades, I sleep as long as I like, eat when I'm hungry (instead of grabbing something because of time), but saying "no" has been my most rewarding self-help lesson.
This is why we should support bacteria, its the only culture some people have...
Ha! I see what you did there! Have an upvote.
Load More Replies...Not quite, they will eat you, breaking down your whole self into little bits that then become other things
LOOK AT THIS! THIS IS AMAZING! images-4-6...b9ff1.jpeg
The ‘Ominous Positivity Memes’ project is a testament to the fact that social media has room for seemingly contradictory ideas (overwhelming aggression on the one hand, optimism and support on the other) that fit better than expected.
And, wow, does the internet love ominously positive memes. We know that numbers don’t mean everything. But we still can’t help but applaud the project for racking up nearly 700k followers on Facebook and another 82.7k on Instagram.
I use skulls. They're more intimidating. Although sometimes they get too bulky, so I toss in some others as well.
Load More Replies...This appeared in a list several months ago and I made the (I thought at the time quite reasonable) point that some of us aren't tall enough to carry off a crown 50% of our own height. I want a crown of rib bones - curvy, like me!
Sorry, no, the naysayers are correct. At a certain point you just have to switch a more simple and elegant single inverted pelvis crown.
yes, and she holds her head up high with her heavy crown. not too high, because then it will fall, but high nonetheless.
Load More Replies...In a past post I am a dumb rock now I am Chonky opossum fodder - mother would be so proud!
Load More Replies...If you say 'chonky opossum' out loud he begins to sound like a delightful Irish legend. Aye, she was blessed with a visit from Chonky O'Possum!
Reminds me of this awesome pickup line: "Are you the trash? 'cause I wanna take you out!"
gay culture is claiming anything rainbow.
Load More Replies...i am thankfully surrounded by wonderful people like this. starting to think i *might* be one of 'em. i hope so.
Printed and hung on the inside of our front door so we see it every day. I WILL BE BRUTAL AND RELENTLESS AND RIDE INTO BATTLE BY THEIR SIDE!!!!
‘Ominous Positivity Memes’ has a very simple premise. Sharing powerful posts that make you believe in yourself, whether you want to or not. It’s a great way to drag you out of your current frame of mind if you’re feeling blue, all while making you chuckle.
“When you are faced with a world that doesn't care about you: fill it with Love. Aggressively. Or Else,” the project describes itself on social media, taking away any and all choice in being happy in life that you thought you had.
A large chunk of our happiness comes from helping others. Sarah Vero from the ‘Action for Happiness’ project told Bored Panda that the 10 keys to happier living are: “Giving, relating, exercising, awareness, trying out, direction, resilience, emotions, acceptance, and meaning. We are likely to be happier if our lives have direction, meaning, and purpose and if we are part of something bigger than ourselves.”
Even small acts of kindness can make us feel better while also making the world a far better, brighter place. "Think about how you can reach out and do things for others, help a neighbor or volunteer for a cause, we get happiness high from helping other people. Or start small and simply list three things that you can be grateful for each night before bed,” she said.
Yeah, sounds like a normal day at the hospital or restaurant for me!
Load More Replies..."Please call again if you need ANYTHING, Hhave a wonderful day ....*phone clicks off* .... you absolute [ C u Next TUESDAY]. Remember to wait for the click before you call someone a d**k though.
*screams and beats chest. Snorts and with determination* Dear sir or madam, as per my last e-mail...
Load More Replies...That sounds like a threat. I think I should go lock my doors now.
Load More Replies...Living in the past is depression. Living in the future is anxiety. It is only in the present that contentment can be achieved.
So far I've outlived two exhusbands, and numerous classmates and ex-boyfriends. And I'm only 59 yo!!!
Load More Replies...My reason to live is that I won't see my nephews and little brothers grow up if I go
Feed pet and pasta... or to feed pet pasta and hear new music with pet whilst eating pasta, out of spite!
Vanessa King, the Head of Psychology at ‘Action for Happiness,’ explained to Bored Panda that altruism is the social glue that keeps us together. Human beings are social beings, after all. We can’t thrive without each other.
“When we do things for others it activates the reward center in the brain, so when we give a gift it feels the same as receiving a gift," she said that we’re biologically hardwired to help others.
Either this person can't swear or that's some swearing level I can't comprehend. Either way, Samrat, I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
I found it to be perfectly comprehensible so I’m going to go with Option B. I think you just need to take Swear Grammar 213, I TA for it if you need help.
Load More Replies..."...a walking chimaera of various furies and petty qualms." *Chef's kiss* Me to a T, though I wish I could control the Rage Tears™️. It annoys me no end when people think I'm crying because I'm hurt or too fragile etc when actually no, I'm leaking fury water you bloody pillock
We're both angry chimera. I can be mad about something that happened 3 yrs ago and still be mad about whatever you just said to me.
"Bless 'em, there's only so much they can do with four limbs and no antennae"
All the planets are admiring your fashion sense, and the faraway galaxies are talking about how amazing it is that you practically rise from the dead every morning and die again at night
Someone's being a moron and downvoting for no reason. Here, have an upper!
Load More Replies...“Small daily actions one at a time can help us to make altruism a lifetime habit. You could start out small by deciding you are going to smile at everyone you meet or pay three people a compliment today,” she told Bored Panda.
According to her, donating to a food bank, giving money to charity, volunteering, or helping out an elderly neighbor all make us feel better. “All of these actions help others and boost your own happiness and if we are happier, research shows we are even more likely to help others,” Vanessa noted.
"the hills are alive with all the f***s I give on select topics" MOOD
I try to not have very strong opinions on things I'm not qualified to talk about but when I have strong opinions OH BOY DO I HAVE THEM.
The hills are alive with the bones of my enemieeees with screams they have screaaamed for a thousand yeeeeeeaaaaars
Dying on a hill of menial garbage is a waste of your time (my opinion). Does this person spit in the face of the worker who gave them a blueberry bagel instead of everything? F*****g let it go.
"You’ll have won a great battle if you lose the fear of letting yourself be known"--St Jose Maria Escrivá
I've found quite a few stupid topics I refuse to budge on. Unfortunately I married an equally stubborn man.
That sounds like Finn Hayes (Vampire Related Crimes series by Alice Winters. Check it out if you like M/M and vampires).
"I like you, Scully...so I'm going to kill you last." [LATER] "Remember when I said I would kill you last?" "Yeah, Matrix, I remember" "I lied."
Load More Replies...I always say that in Boo's voice. Always.
Load More Replies...I would sqush and moosh creamy to make her change her opinion. She would make me feel good with all her offerings of sqush-mooshes
10+ points if you see a neat bird, or some sort of small tree mammal. 50+ points for random encounter with a dog
I absolutely love nodding/saying hello to strangers because it's not the norm around here, so it kinda freaks them out.
I hope to soon be well enough to resume my walks. Life is much harder without them.
I've always been slightly disappointed that Dracula moved to Whitby yet there isn't a single mention of him buying fish and chips
He should have moved to Scotland. After all, they have blood puddin'.
Load More Replies...I was 8 when I took all of the marshmallows out of the Lucky Charms then blamed my sister for it...
According to my stories (yeah, yeah, not canon, I don't care. I love my stories and you can't take that away), Dracula adopted a baby girl in the winter of 1777. He named her Raven DeathShade, and trained her to be the best of the best.
When your mind starts to go & rising from a sitting position becomes a gamble, it's too f*****g late!
"It's never too late to follow your dreams", especially if you're a fictional immortal character. This should be "it's never too early to follow your dreams"
So basically mushrooms are the advanced army of the ancient gods of the forest, and we should beware their wrath
If you are lucky, you can find the kind that allows you to talk to trees, see forever, fly, wake up in a ditch with a headache from the trip you just took
Or know someone that grows them hydroponically ;)
Load More Replies...Imagine my horror when I learned about that. Niw going foraging sounds like picking flowers from a head of a giant
Places of worship have more decor on their walls and ceilings than I have space on my body. Should I get the next tattoo I want? I definitely should!
I kinda want to have angel wings tattooed on my back. In the Sims, I've made that tattoo the DeathShade Family Crest, and honestly it's one of my better achievements.
Load More Replies...My body is a temple. It has a bloody altar, long steep steps and a weirdo in a mask wielding a knife
You treat your body like a temple? That’s nice! I treat mine like a whorehouse above a liquor store next to a 24 hour KFC.
Does anyone else no matter what time they get home - get into their jammies for the rest of the day!
I prefer looking at my body like a temple with colourful stained windows. Like Cathedrals, don't you dare tell me Im supposed to let my body look like a warehouse church of fake evangelists
or because that 10 step i walked down winded me because i’m in terrible shape
Does anyone know the origin of this artwork? It's all over google as memes, but it started somewhere. Not sure why, but I'm fascinated in a creepy way. LOL!! Curious what these actually portray.
Flatwoods monster. It's like the Bigfoot of West Virginia that is not the mothman
Load More Replies...I'm out of the pic because I tripped and rolled down the hill. Oh well.
I always sit when I stir the cauldron so beware of a seated presence!
Can I have a "gentle breeze of tranquility" instead of "cauldron of ghosts" please?
You get to have that here too. I've had both. You ok? As a fellow human floating on a ball in an enormous universe, I want to send you positive, strength giving anything I can do. I've fought many battles. I've won many. Lost a few. But I just wanted to check. Again. Are you ok?
Load More Replies...Mine has several random people running around screaming and where the heck is that music coming from…?
I have an MRI scan that shows my skull is empty, except for a sign saying 'Vacant space for rent' ))
There are many living who have skulls as empty as a conch shell on a fence post...
My head has a series of people I knew/know/liked in a movie or tv show just wandering around and giving me advice.
Mine has a swirling void that all causes all types of scanner to burst into flames after a few seconds
Okey dokey, now ya wanna hit up the mall today, or what? Cause, "all I wanna do is have some fun, I gotta a feeling I'm not the only one"....
I've never before taken a series of screenshots of a bored panda article. Today is that day, and this is that article.
That just reminded me of a moment with my mom years ago. We went hiking and the way back seemed to be the straw that broke her. I was trying to be positive and keep her going by pointing out more awesome things in nature. I pointed to a flower, told her to check out the pretty purple flower and she yelled 'I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE F*****G PRETTY PURPLE FLOWER! ARE WE THERE YET?" I gave her a ten minute rest because I couldn't stop laughing long enough to stand up. She doesn't like hiking with me XD
I'm trying to be human does that make me an imposter!
Load More Replies...It worked like a charm for me right up to the moment I dropped the doner heart on the operating room floor
THis sounds like an awesome plot for a book. Don't mind me while I go make that happen.
the biggest concern with imposter syndrome is the fear that you can't keep it up, the dread that they will eventually figure it out, and everything will fall down like a house of cards
Ah, but for those who embrace it instead of fight it, "keeping it up" becomes a joy, not a struggle! Oops, gotta run - time to whip up another flattering illusion, BWAH-HA-HA-HA!
Load More Replies...I faked an entire career but everyone else though I was a genius. So who really is an imposter?
As a person who is always feeling like an imposter, this is something I can get behind!
Well I do think Loki is pretty cool..I’m sure he’d want me to leave chaos wherever I go..
I feel like they just described Camilo Madrigal............................
I'm so incredibly lucky; my current migraine is creating a free light-show just for me 💞. Accompanied by the rhythmic pumping of my head, it's like I am hosting my own private rave! Gonna pop a couple of tramadol and party-hardy duuuuude 🤙 😂
Load More Replies...It's like when someone asks you how you cope with xyz (whatever struggle you have) and the answer is always "you cope because you have no other choice".
This is my favourite! It almost feels like a given that way and eliminates the need to be strong when I don't feel it
Load More Replies...not that it matters or anyone cares, but sometimes you have to trudge through knee deep dogshit, painfully pay your penance and ultimately, the ending is still not a happy one.
how dare they cut off the first picture! we need to see his little boots acd58d3bac...fdafe9.jpg
*Shocked deep inhale, hands on heart* THEY DID WHAT!? HOW DARE THEY
Load More Replies...I'M STEALING THE BIG NIGHT CAT FOR A BOOK AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!
I saw they moons before I got glasses at eight. I knew it there was only one, but didn't really believe it? I was really sad/happy to see that while there was really only one (sad) it was absolutely beautiful! ( I also happened to see it at full so there's that)
Don't end it there. Tell us. Are you confident, or do you have dope-ass cloak? ;oP
Load More Replies...Ken? "What's an ass-cloak?" No... [audience laughter] Woah! Woah! They teach you that in school in Utah, huh?
The main thing about being a vampire (or, in my case, pretending to be one) is the confidence. Since you should, hypothetically, like vampires before pretending to be one, doing so should make you happy. Happiness gives you confidence. Confidence gives you the power to take over the world. Succeed. It is inevitable.
bold words coming from a man who looks like a pear
Load More Replies...And also crows are cuter than children, just my opinion don’t kill me lol
That's not your opinion, that's a scientific fact!!!
Load More Replies...Having kids.... expensive and exciting. Especially when they live through the fall from the tree you told them not to climb cause they can fall and hurt themselves or die 🤦♀️
It's funny and all but "having kids = boring" ist just completely off. I'm in my thirties, have 4 kids myself and not a day has been boring since I held my firstborn for the first time. I also can't remember one of my parent-friends saying "You know, having kids is nice and all but but I would love some more excitement.". I would even argue that some parents would happily trade in a day of boredom for one of their days filled with dirty diapers, bloody noses and loooots of noise. Don´t get me wrong though – I actually befriended three crows last summer in our garden, and it absolutely rocks! (and actually my kids helped me name the crows, they're called Ragnar, Claudius Dünnbein (i. e. Claudius Thinlegs) and Loki)
Just the thing I needed to read after working out for the second time in a year and a half.
I wanna blow this up into a poster and hang it up next to my exercise equipment.
Lovely, but can I have your collection of Sylvanian Families when you finally die?
Now I feel like I need an appropriately proportioned driver for my pony-powered war chariot.
Judging by her profile picture and name, I feel like she has tried this and it has turned out well
If you can’t handle me at my worst, neither can I but at least you have a choice.
I intend to haunt the new train station at Birmingham because I hate it
Do you mean Grand Central? Because I as a brummie also hate it
Load More Replies...I'm going to admit that I'm a bit more ambitious. I'm going to possess the earth and haunt the world
when I die, the only thing imma haunt is the bedroom for a few millennia.
Or… Become friends with your skeletons and dance with your demons. Honor your past and make it your confidante, your advisor, and your muse. Just sayin’.
I'll just drink my demons under the table then throw them off a bridge. I hate coffee.
OMG, horror story in under 50 words! Quit eating my thoughts, ghosts, you're driving me batty.
I was thinking of writing a follow up story line to this post but when I went to the kitchen to get a thingy, um, I came back and, erm, what was I doing?
Load More Replies...I managed to read "He tastes your arms" Then again who knows, it might be why we get goosebumps on our forearms!
Load More Replies...Same, Jayne. Same. And I'm totally, 100% okay with that.
Load More Replies...I'm adopted and all 4 of my parents have trauma and issues they need to address and they DESPERATELY need to go to therapy.
Someone paint the demons face and put blushies on 'em please I'm begging you
Remember kids, it is always better to have goal-oriented statement, rather than a vague one.
Okay, I have been called out many times on this list and I'm not sure I like it. I wanna know who's spying on me or something.
From what I know about you, you're a teenager. Like me. A lot of things on this list, many teenagers can relate to. I believe it's at the core of every teen to try to be edgy, I suppose XD.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately, you cannot just decide to be stupid. Ignorance is bliss, but only happy few are blessed.
Likely on Red Bubble or some stolen content website like that
Load More Replies...But guess who absolutely HATES you? This guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBkWhkAZ9ds
If you took all of your DNA, straightened it out and put it end to end, you would be dead
My armour is a Deadpool T-shirt, a pair of cargo pants that I call my mega-kegs, warm fluffy soft socks, a soft pair of leather shoes with steel toecaps and loose fitting boxer shorts so that I can let 'em swing, happy in the knowledge that this time I won't get arrested for indecent exposure
my armor is a miniskirt, a massive band t that entirely covers the skirt, thick tights, boots and the knowledge that im going to be dresscoded at school B)
Load More Replies...There was no bravery in getting out of bed today, simply the fact that if I don’t there’s no money to pay the bills and feed to cat. The cat likes kibble and I like sleeping inside, so…
I love this. my armor is my hair in a bandana, flannel, kickass leather boots, and my host of OCs in my head telling me to do stupid sh!t or not do stupid sh!t.
My armour is my favorite BUSH song, 'Cold Contagious' but more specifically a specific verse, "Paint your perfect day-I don't mind this-I'm better off by the way-Deeply grounded" ,it's a grungy dark song with a positive note and it is so much better now for me now. I still love it so much because alternative music of many kinds helps me to reduce stress and deflect annoying issues. It's my meditation tool.
Right? At the grocery store, the bathroom cleaner in my basket opened up somehow and spilled all over the floor. I apologized more than I should have, but I felt bad that the checkers and baggers had to smell it, it was intense. And I thanked the bagger who mopped it up. It was his job, but it was extra work nonetheless.
Mermaids are still in. Lure those who have wronged you into the beautiful abyss and watch them drown in your sorrow.
So Sirens in disguise for the modern day, basically? I like it!
Load More Replies...i didnt have a clue what i was doing last year yet somehow i made straight As all year and was one of FIVE people to make a 4 or 5 on the AP exam
Load More Replies...Apparently the vibe they've got going is 40 dollars. I'd spend 80 to make sure they can keep vibing on a chair swing outside my house.
Oh, thank God. I was beginning to question the wisdom of giving my local Canada geese a set of steak knives
Canadian Geese are apex predators even without knives. harbingers of ultra violence.
Load More Replies...Yes. For I am blossoming into a beautiful young woman instead. *Checks the deck to make sure that isn't one of the other cards.*
We need more aggressively positive anime style overlords/witches. I would watch all episodes of a series were the traditional evel one is actually aggressive improving the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBkWhkAZ9ds begs to disagree.
Load More Replies...When you drink a glass of water, remember this. That water came from the sea. The sun evaporated it and the wind carried it to the tops of mountains where it fell as snow and rain. It dropped into the streams and flowed into rivers. Where someone like yourself drank it. Went to the toilet. Took a pee and flushed. It then travelled as a small part of a greater number of collected pee into the sea, where the sun evaporated it again
Do you want me to "check"? *Cannibal noises*
Load More Replies...Then, you can corrupt others who are too shy to corrupt themselves! Continue the legacy!!
Dracula: gives me a brief passing glance and goes back to studying English railway timetables
for entirely humour purposes: he may not desire your essence, but he may store you in a freezer for a late night meal the night before he does his shopping.
Load More Replies...You body to see but not to touch... Like the morning sun, it hurts too much... The craving washes over me like a flood... I would burn the world, for a taste of your blood...
That is seriously beautiful. If you wrote that, gow write some more and post it somewhere so that everyone can read. I can never rhyme and it makes me mad. I love how you rhymed
Load More Replies...No, since he's my father. He'll ask me how I'm handling Vladian rule XD.
Dracula probably will take one look at me and run away screaming. 🤣🤣🤣
I want to trade SAHM for "Woman gathering herbs in the woods", but I want to do it in Scotland.
Now you advocate crearivity instead, i hope. Is that i pai i see behind your back?
Load More Replies...The internal voice that tells you all the bad things about yourself? Give it a name, a name you don't like: Janet, Arnold, Gobbledygook, whatever. So when Janet talks crap, tell her to shut her goddamn mouth. Now think what the person who loves you most would say on the subject and tell Janet that (Loving Person) says this, and Janet can go to hell. I know it sounds really weird, but try it. It forces you to not only consciously confront what you are saying to yourself, but to take it out of yourself and put it "over there" and then attack it with something better. Give your loving voice a really cool name. Let Janet and Medusa battle their s**t out externally, and make sure Medusa wins.
You can also try giving your stress a name, for example I have Arnold the very small cartoon businessman who stands on my shoulder and likes to panic, and I get to tell him to shut up.
Load More Replies...This whole post made my entire morning which was shaping up to be garbage. Thanks BP!
You can stand on a hill and have all the petty furies you want, but make sure you give love and positivity in equal measure or they'll be the hills you die on for nothing.
It took me three reads of that to not see "pretty furries"
Load More Replies...The internal voice that tells you all the bad things about yourself? Give it a name, a name you don't like: Janet, Arnold, Gobbledygook, whatever. So when Janet talks crap, tell her to shut her goddamn mouth. Now think what the person who loves you most would say on the subject and tell Janet that (Loving Person) says this, and Janet can go to hell. I know it sounds really weird, but try it. It forces you to not only consciously confront what you are saying to yourself, but to take it out of yourself and put it "over there" and then attack it with something better. Give your loving voice a really cool name. Let Janet and Medusa battle their s**t out externally, and make sure Medusa wins.
You can also try giving your stress a name, for example I have Arnold the very small cartoon businessman who stands on my shoulder and likes to panic, and I get to tell him to shut up.
Load More Replies...This whole post made my entire morning which was shaping up to be garbage. Thanks BP!
You can stand on a hill and have all the petty furies you want, but make sure you give love and positivity in equal measure or they'll be the hills you die on for nothing.
It took me three reads of that to not see "pretty furries"
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