The Morbid Fascination with Negativity and How We Can Change It

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Welcome to my blog, dear readers. Today’s topic is positive pressure.

We live in a society, as I’ve repeated many times, that is very fast-paced. Globalization and the way we communicate make everything move quickly, and in this rush, we have no time to think or sit down to analyze things.

Within this speed and movement, we socially encounter groups where we feel pressured.

This can be good or bad.

In my experience, things often lean toward the negative, and it’s due to human nature itself—we seem drawn to morbid or negative things.

There’s an almost morbid pleasure in this, inherent to human nature, if you think about it.

We see this in how news spreads: when someone commits a crime, murder, or robbery, people in the neighborhood or their surroundings immediately start talking about it.

In other words, bad things gain attention.

In contrast, when someone does something good—like creating something positive or achieving a milestone, such as graduating or painting murals in their community—these actions go unnoticed or overlooked.

This reflects how we value ourselves as a society and as humanity. But this is a topic I’ve discussed before and will revisit in another post.

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Today, I want to share how peer pressure led me to do something positive.

Two years ago, the building where I live suffered an accident.

There was a fire. This fire was caused by the negligence of a person who was handling gasoline in our building’s parking lot. Our parking area is very enclosed, so handling gasoline there concentrates fumes, making it extremely dangerous.

This person carelessly began siphoning gasoline from their motorcycle to move it elsewhere, and while doing so, fumes accumulated in the air. They then used their cellphone to send text messages.

This triggered a chain reaction that led to a massive fire in the parking lot, which nearly spread to our building.

In fact, the parking lot is very close to the building. The flames rose so high due to an explosion that affected several vehicles, reaching up to the 17th floor of our building.

I live on the 13th floor and felt the flames on my balcony. It was a situation where everyone had to flee immediately.

The example of peer pressure I want to share is that, while I had to evacuate to avoid suffocating from the smoke, my first concern was my neighbor.

My neighbor is an 82-year-old woman with an autistic son, and she refused to leave her home.

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And what I want to tell you is that I had to get her out of her house in the middle of the fire, because she was afraid.

She didn't want to get out of her apartment and her son was shouting as a panic.

I asked the neighbors who had been going down the stairs, and together we made him understand that if he did not leave his apartment he would be in danger because he was going to suffocate with the smoke.

Then she decided to go out and I helped her go to where I could because I was also suffocating.

What I want to make clear with this is that thanks to the positive pressure of all its neighbors we managed to save it and make you understand the risk that you correct.

So the group pressure became something good.

Today she no longer lives there, she is safer in a place where they take care of her, and her son too.

Anyway, the point with this is that it is demonstrated how this can be something good and help for everyone.