Proving a negative

How do you prove a negative?


Some people would cry that trying to is a little silly, dabbling in a world skirting in physics and overtly using grey matter much more useful appropriated to the running of day to day life, though i wont comment on what those lives are filled with. Far be it from me.


Some people ask how do you prove a negative. The most obvious to call to mind being the lottery. Statistically, you have more chance of meeting Elvis in the form of a gerbil, sanguine, fluent in mandarin and somehow a brilliant fuck?


However, you can prove a negative. Some people do win the lottery. Some of them elect the publicity please box and shake their first post-hundred quid bottle of now throwaway wine over the nearest Camelot Executive thinking they too are reveling with you, perhaps not realising you're Britain 498th millionaire and this is the four hundred and ninety ninth pair of J.James shoes ruined (They always come prepared for this eventuality)


I always muse on the life of a Camelot worker. How would it be to work so close to so much wealth being appropriated, yet you cannot take part. Herein maybe lies the crux, perhaps these people are the ones most at ease with the negative proved. They accept it happens, yet they carry on regardless (I'm running unquoted, if you know any Camelot workers, please point them my way, I'd love to pick their brain)


Are these people the happiest people in the country? I really need to know this. How can you work so close to the negative being proved positive all the time, never being in the running for this slim glimpse at happiness, but operate life's wheel away, when in actuality, this isn't the modus operandi of the fates. The fates want you to fail from the outset. A newborn baby is more close to death than to life, but 6 billion people on the planet prove this wrong. We are constantly reminded of death, war, destruction, yet we manage to carve out a life. 


Does surrounding yourself near failure, poor ratings, walking under ladders, eating chips near seagulls...does this make you happier. If you bring unhappiness more to the table, do you truly appreciate the good things. 


Those that fight adversity, overcome horrific disease, walk the globe for charity blah blah blah (sardonic mood, please forgive planet) seem to have that aura of "Fuck You" and nothing bad is ever going to happen to me. You see it all the time, even eleven year olds are now scaling Everest to triumph for Wham Bars for every one and new fly-me helicopters for all children..every one's at proving positives. Are these people truly happy.


Which is it. Which brings happiness. What brings you that tingling buzz when you wake in a morning and think that's its another day and its going to be a good one. Does surrounding yourself near bad things highlight your good things, or does doing good things keep good things away.


Is it easier to enforce a positive than to disprove a negative. Or, are they equal on both sides of the equation.


Personally, today, i had many negatives proved, and i do not feel happier for it. 


Skipping six paragraphs and an ink blot of cliched digital tears on the page, its lead to some positives suddenly occurring to me. Within my skipped paragraphs and blotted tear i have figured something out. Eliminate negatives, you get left with positives. 


(Include area for further post reflection on what brings happiness)


Nothing happens by chance. Life is a formula, put ignorantly and a word for said many times before....


The more you put into your formula, the more you will get out, or the more likely you are to get what you want.


So, to my original point....how to prove a negative. Put simply, you need to embrace the negative. 


Like the Camelot worker...being so close to all those negatives being proved, I want the same. I don't care how many shoes get ruined, I'm going to keep trying. Bring those negatives to you and prove them wrong, doing so, i hope, is going to bring me a plateau of positives. My neck's fucked, that being a negative, but on reflection, i find positives from it. I think It's already begun.


No need for this to start http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtHfzaBhSxo