Change it up

This is over post 2,500.  I have written about may different topics but in one sense I feel like a broken record.  I keep on coming back to a theme.  Yet in thinking about it, it is a theme I am happy to come back to again and again.
I was reminded of this by the email from James Clear.  In it he said, "The way to help someone is not to critique what makes them smaller, but to encourage what makes them larger."
I often say what I concentrate on grows bigger.  So if I give prolonged thought to negative and destructive things they will dominate my thinking.  By the same token if I give prolonged thought to ways to love, helping, being patient despite the immediately adverse, I will tend to act in a way that builds up rather than pulls down another.  Which is good for everyone including me really.
To be honest I am seeing a lot of concentrating on bad stuff right now.  I really only need to play some video games or look at movies to see that evil is being promoted without bounds.  Sure good wins in the end in most cases.  But in games that is not a given, and in movies the way of evil knows no bounds.
At work my computer was set up along with everyone else’s to play a shoot em up video game.  When after a while I did not move, I realized I was dead.  Yet lo and behold I came back to life.
I cannot deny that I am seeing a lack of thought for the consequences of actions at the moment.  For many the evil on display in games and movies is just dismissed as a game.  For others role play goes into real life and suddenly, but often too late, consequences are seen and lived.  Lives are changed.  It seems to me we are getting to the stage where the unexpected is expected and fear and violence is the norm.
To me that is traced back to “what I think about grows larger.”  That is why I want to concentrate on the good and I shut my eyes deliberately if there is murder abroad in movies.  I do not want those images in my mind.
I am human and there are things in my mind I do not want there.  I ask for help and work on replacement.  I deliberately replace the bad with the good.  Sometimes the transformation is immediate, but often it is gradual. 
What matters to me is not how it happens, but that it happens.  I need to see my mind renewed and evil intent replaced with good intent.  They say “revenge is sweet.”  Yet I do not see that as in my hands to do.  What is in my hands to do is to attempt to bring out the good in another.
I may succeed in doing that or I may fail.  Yet either way I have succeeded as I have not become like my adversary.  Evil never stops of its own accord.  It needs to be stopped and I want to play my part.