rogue-of-broken-time:

A small reminder of what PMA actually is.

PMA isn’t constantly finding reasons to smile. PMA isn’t constantly looking for the good things that come with the bad. PMA isn’t having a grin on your face at all times, faking positivity until you make it, or telling yourself to “just be happier because there’s always something to smile about in the community!”.

PMA is letting yourself feel sad. PMA is letting the negative emotions happen as they come. PMA is having the internal strength to let yourself process them in a healthy way and then finding a reason to smile again after it’s all said and done.

Bottom line is, we’re humans. We’re all going to feel down at some point. It’s going to happen. And that’s normal and healthy. It’s 100% okay– it’s much worse if you try to suppress it.

“PMA” wasn’t made to combat feeling down, or to make sure it doesn’t ever happen to you or anyone else around you.

A real positive mental attitude is how you recover yourself from feeling down in a healthy way whenever it DOES happen.

Real PMA is having the strength to follow the beacon after losing sight of it, not forcefully shining the light in everyone’s eyes.

(… I dunno, I just think this is something the community has needed to hear lately. Seeing the skewed definition used so much can be… suffocating, especially if you’re like me and haven’t been in the greatest headspace lately.)