Doubt - Why Is It So Hard To Believe These Days?

Do you have doubts? Everyone does once in awhile. We really can't help it.

Perhaps it is suspicion, skepticism, uncertainty and information overload. A focus on the negative: there is a 20% chance of rain, not an 80% chance of Sun. Why is rain a bad thing?

The constant media barrage of doom, doom, doom, and more gloom. How could there possibly be anything good? Constantly Negative News (CNN) does their part very well.

The perceptions of the "if it seems to good to be true, it usually is" crowd. What nonsense! Who ever came up with that one? True, one needs to be diligent but if an opportunity opens up in front of you, don't fear checking it out.

Throw in a lack of faith, lack of trust along with continued verbal and non-verbal pummeling from parents, siblings, friends, and whomever else is out there enable doubt and self-doubt become huge.

It is seemingly easier to focus on doubt as it is less resistant to disbelieve than it is to believe. Doubt doesn't require proof or faith or even action, it just is.

Maybe doubt is a seed of thought planted, a seed that could grow with direction. To doubt, then disprove the negative and turn that into a positive and constructive thought.

Do I doubt? I doubt it.