My past weeks on FB have been filled with much more positivity than I have managed in my entire lifetime, up to this point.  I’ve had to make a conscious effort to do so, as life is still throwing me a few curveballs(though they are much less curvy than in the past 6 months).

Today, my brother tells me, “I’m following in your footsteps.  I haven’t posted anything negative on Facebook.”

I nearly panicked.

For the love of everything unholy, don’t follow in my footsteps.  I’m seriously the most likely to step on a well-marked landmine.

I’m just winging the positive preface to life.  No one ever told me how, or why, to present myself with a positive outlook.  I just know that I’ve been drenched in negative, hateful thinking, for the better part of my life; namely at the hands of religion.

I have…