AlKim: I'll join in the fun.

I used to be very negative not all that long ago: snarky, skeptic, sarcastic and irritable. The condition was efficient at sustaining and feeding itself to boot. I'm not sure what exactly happened, but I assume that a combination of moving out of the town where I'd lived all my life, meeting a ton of new people and a lot of conscious effort to look for positive aspects in things and in people - and probably just growing up a little - has changed my general outlook on everything. To borrow the phrase, I dispensed with negativity. As a bonus, I like even myself more. Accepting that I may come across as the self-satisfied fuck that I now am, other people like me more as a result as well.

Much like my previous negativity force-fed itself, the same is now happening with the opposite: I've let go of past difficulties, accept and sort out my current, and avoid new ones either by consciously not picking up the unnecessary emotional baggage or (by virtue of my adjusted attitude) by failing to give them the attention in the first place that the past me would have. Of course I am still subject to pressure, I face hardships and I fail from time to time like I always have, but thanks to the shift in perspective, life is no longer an obstacle course of misery to be endured.