Positivity Weekly

Good times to you, Peeker (Positivity Seeker). For the past many months, we’ve had a series of themes to define our volumes. Well, this week’s different. This week, we don’t have a theme. So the theme becomes Random good stuff from everywhere . Feels like a potluck of positivity, doesn’t it? Enjoy! News from the public domain Dementia fake village Mirroring the magical feel of Hogwarts is Hogewey, a gated village on the outskirts of Amsterdam. In some ways, Hogewey is even more of a make-believe place than Hogwarts. Because its residents are either patients of dementia or their caregivers. The patients believe that the village is “for real” while the caregivers take great pains to sustain the illusion. In other words, this place is akin to what Jim Carrey experiences in the movie The Truman Show . Except that this place has dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Trumans. Why go through all this trouble? So that the dementia patients can continue to enjoy a normal life. They ...

Good times to you, fellow Peeker (Positivity Seeker). If you are a regular reader of Positivity Weekly, you will be aware that we seem to stumble upon various themes every week. Redemption, knowledge, change, attitude, unusual journeys, beautiful actions, the goodness of nature, the human spirit and diversity are just some of the themes we have covered. This week, we have two themes. Inspiration and kindness. And it’s amazing how connected these ideas are. Have a look. News from the public domain A one-armed leader Miles O’Brien was just an average Joe. Assuming that the average Joe jet sets around the world, bringing difficult-to-cover news stories to your television screens. As a freelancer, life was definitely more challenging for him than the network journalists. But what O’Brien had not bargained for was to lose his left hand in a freak accident. In this moving article in the New York magazine , he mentions his denial, his childhood and other sundry factors th...

Hello there, Peekers (Positivity Seekers)! Let’s start this week with an IMPORTANT ALERT. Apparently, there’s this traffic constable in Bangalore named Bheemaraj B. More than one person has spotted him doing his duty diligently, paying scant regard to his own fatigue or the late hour. And he acts surprised when the public at large praise him for his efforts. His usual response: ‘I’m just doing my job.’ If you find this officer lurking in your vicinity, please watch out! You just might become the next unwitting recipient of selfless service. Consider yourself warned!! Phew! Being negative about a positive development – as I was in the paragraph above – was tough. Felt unnatural and contrary to the spirit of the Positivity Weekly. And yet, so many of us constantly convert the positive into the negative in our own lives. Without effort and, oftentimes, unintentionally.   That’s because our brains are Velcro for the negative, but Teflon for the positive , as mentioned in this...