When you have a negative attitude it is hard to see all the angels you meet in the world.
I thought about this after hearing two men in complaining in the locker room. The older complained that his friends were less willing to give him rides. I kept quiet, but I wondered if his friends were unwilling to listen to his negative comments. When I related this to my wife, she suggested that fewer of his friends drove anymore.
The negativity made me think of the couplet
When you laugh, the whole world laughs with you.
When you cry, you cry alone.
The actual couplet is
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone:
…”
The poem is “Solitude” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox”. You can find it at
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45937/solitude-56d225aad9924
