The act of being positive is considered a virtue that all must emulate. It is seen as that quality that distinguishes responsible beings from the rest.
This positive reality has been in the mouth of inspirational speakers for years. They tell their listeners the importance of being positive and how positive means good and blessing.
Today, i wonder if this is still the same reality. With lot of things happening in the world today, positive is becoming a thing we all fear to be associated with as a reality or fact of life.
Few days ago, a celebrity in Nigeria posted 'be positive' on her Twitter page. Ordinarily, this is something that should have encouraged others or spurn them to aim higher, be focus on their dreams and keep those dreams alive.
But to the surprise of the celebrity, she started trending on Twitter. She checked to see why, only to found out that her tweet about staying positive has made her hit the trend board.
Many Nigerians shouted 'not at this time', 'we need to be negative' , 'we can't be positive'!!! She quickly tweeted back that she meant in life and not about the pandemic troubling the world.
I was equally surprised to see that. A harmless tweet turned to a national discussion on social media.
Today, people pray to be negative! While this is true about the covid-19 as many pray they get negative test result each time they go for testing, it has affected our thinking also.
I did the covid-19 test some weeks ago and throughout, i was just negative about everything. All my thoughts were about the possibility of having the virus. So i was negative in my thoughts, thinking about what will follow the result of it turns out the result is positive.
So the positive became my enemy. It became something i detested and within me, i prayed to be negative. To be negative here is not in life but with with the result of the test i did.
Fortunately, the result was negative. Within me, i had this joy, i was very happy that i celebrated the negative (result).
So i ask myself, had it been that the result of the test was positive, would i have been that happy, would i have celebrated it?
The answer is no. I would have been devastated and hated the fact that i tested positive. So negative has become the new deal and a prayer of many people going for covid-19 test.
This made me realise the amount of courage it took people to go out for HIV test. This is not like covid-19 that has symptoms.
I can't wait for us all to go back to our normal life where being positive is a blessing and something that encourages and inspires us to do more.
What we have now is abnormal. It is a negation of the world order and i can't wait for negative to be vice and something no one want to be associated with or be proud of.
To those out there who are positive with disease or virus, I hope you win the battle. The same courage you had will keep you going until you finally win.
Thanks for your time.
