Why the word ‘Typical’ amazes me

– “Gaah! I missed the bus! So typically me!”
– “aaw, it’s raining on my only day off, how typical”
and so on…

Typical, the word itself ought to refer to something that does happens more often than not. Something that paints the picture.

A typical swede is blond!
Typically the bus passes by every Sunday.

Ask yourself: do you really miss the bus more often than you catch it?
If your answer indeed is Yes, perhaps you actually didn’t even want to catch the bus in the first place?? 😅
Still, the situation described most often as typical are the days we do happen to miss it.
Could it be that it is simply a boring story to tell: “Man, listen! I caught the bus this morning, again! Isn’t that typical me?”

So why is it that so many, in the everyday language, refer to the ‘typical’ only when it comes to describing the negative?
In short: why do we tend to celebrate the negative rather than the positive?

While writing this text I came to discover that a lot of things I write about also boils down to a curiosity:
“why and when in life do things start to trigger and shape us as persons??“
I am not looking for that one answer or time in life so let me give you an example – Children, many would probably describe them as happy, positive and creative. So when do the negative, narrow-minded and cynical start to grow?
What makes us start to want to find faults, negativities, and differences?

A negative attitude can truly poison the lives and minds of many without even being aware of it.
Fortunately, the opposite is as powerful.
A positive and warm-hearted person can give hope to the ‘hopeless’ with just a smile, kind word, or unselfish action.

_{This is my side of the story, some of my thoughts about the big puzzle we call life.
What are yours?}

Negative or positive – what is typical to you?

Love / Pedro