First of all...A BIG GRANDPA HUG to you!!!
Second...you are on the right track, but I think you focus to much on your negativity, you believe to much that everything end up in a negative way...and that, as you say..hinder you in experience the positive aspect.
It seems for me that what you need are to learn to love and respect yourself, first then can you start to live and respect other.
Since you feel you are so down, so "negative" (as you say about your feelings about yourself), I feel the right way to go is in small step, in order to get many victory's, which again might help you to get more and faster progress.
It might be so simple that you say to yourself....today I shall smile and nod to at least 5 strangers, I think you will be surprised to see that you will get smile and nod back. The same can you put up for neighbors and coworkers, try to put up "goals", clap yourself on the back for manage it...and soon it will be a habit you don't need to think about.
When you talk to other, and you feel they come with some blames to you...or you feel the action they do are wrong....go away...or try to use "black humor", the main thing is not to go into dispute, if it is not necessary....and it seldom is.
It might be that you have a lot of negative stress, that works the same way, then we have short fuse, and say a lot we regret as soon as it leave the mouth.
When we read your post, then we can see 9 use of the word "negative" and 2 use of the word "positive".
When we agree that we are in a negative state of mind, then we must focus on "NOT" use the word "Negative", because this only gives confirmation to the mind that we are Negative.
Use the word Positive as often as possible, and use positive thoughts as often as you can....like the glass are not half empty but half full, that the rain gives drinking water, without sun we can't live, works get me out of the house and pay my bills, a life without neighbors would be dull and silent, dogs and cats make my day more changeable...have you seen any birds...trees...flowers...start notice and find their value, and how poor we would be if they vanish.
When we feel sorry for us self (I have been there, believe me), then open your eyes and mind for those millions of people who have it worse then you.
Look in your neighborhood, you might see people who are handicapped, but still live a rich life, and who many times have a good humor and a joke to give.
We must learn to live with what we are able to have, not on what we hope to have, or on what we believe other have.
Success in life are a very wide conception, which change according to the person who evaluate it. It might be that a hobo have a much greater success in life then a person who earn billions. If the hobo feel he/she has enough, that he/she has no longing for anything else, that he/she know who their friends are, and can share their small belongings with each other without any secret thought, then I think they can be more happy with life then a billionaire who can buy everything, and by that never experience the happiness to struggle before achieve the item.....who never can be sure who his/her friends are.....who never can look away from secret thought....who might have problem to walk in public...and so on
Well it seems I have talked myself fare out on the field, so I better run back, and grab hold on YOU and give you another big HUG and say "This will you manage" good luck....take small step....but move forward the whole time.....you are not alone....if you manage....then the reward is great, and that is my wish for you!
