Positive Thinking Day Writing Project

A Positively Positive Guest Post for Positive Thinking Day

by - Liz Strauss (Guest Writer)

When I was a tiny girl, my younger, older brother liked to tease me. He was a happy-go-lucky kid. I think he wanted to teach me how not to be so serious and so painfully shy.

My younger, older brother was the kind of guy who learned to swim by getting thrown in and laughed the whole time. Despite all warnings, he always mowed the backyard like a baseball diamond, and took the heat when our mom got mad again. He'd jump off the roof on a dare to see if he could fly. He was an action hero, a politician, and a Romeo – every nurse at the emergency room would swear to you he loved her best. He had that kind of positive smile.

What I remember best is when I was too 7-year-old serious, my 15-year-old younger, older brother would catch me in a conversational loop until I laughed. It went like his.

"Life's serious," he'd say.

"Uh-uh," I'd answer.

"Are you positive?"

"Um, yes."

"That doesn't sound positive."

"I'm positive."

"Are you positively, positive?"

"Yes, I AM!!"

"Positively, positive people sure don't sound like that."

"I'm positively, positive," I'd say as lightly as I might.

"Are you positively, positive like a hot fudge sundae?"

"Oh, yes!" I'd answer with interest. "I'm positively, positive like a hot fudge sundae."

"Positively, positive like a hot fudge sundae with whipped cream?"

"I'm positively, positive like a hot fudge sundae with whipped cream."

Then I knew what was coming next.

"Are you positively, positive like a hot fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry with a naked lady sitting on top?"

That's when I'd laugh. Sometimes he took me for a hot fudge sundae with whipped cream and a cherry, but I never saw a naked lady in the ice cream shop.

Not once. I'm positively positive of that.

- Liz Strauss

Comments

[Liz Strauss]

I may not have gotten every detail exactly right. I'm might have been 6-and-a-half-yesrs-old. :)

[Kirsten Harrell, Psy.D.]

It is a cute story... whatever age. ;) I am positively positive of that! I appreciate your support.