"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." -George Orwell
When you speak with someone who is constantly negative, you start to think negatively too. When they complain you feel the need to complain too. On the other-hand, when you're constantly around someone who views the world with optimism, you too start to view the world positively too. With that being said sometimes we as human-beings get in funks or something awful/tragic happens to us and we have the habit of thinking in less than sad ways. The goal is to eventually move past that and recognize the world isn't out to get us but that sometimes hard times happen to us.
The best way to stay true to your morals is to keep your thoughts clear. If you want to act a certain way you have to watch and read certain texts and stay away from others. When we think of certain things it's really hard to turn that part of your brain off especially when you think of it for a long time or think about it all the time.
With this being said when we think of certain words to mean something they're not, this can cause problems. My group talked about how a lot of people say things or people are gay to mean bad. Indirectly these people are calling a group of human beings bad or awful. Not only this but it hardly ever makes sense, since the context is usually never right.
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