What's in a name?

My blog has had the same name for quite awhile now, it was the name of one of my favorite songs since I was little and my dad showed it to me, but I decided I wanted to change the name for a few different reasons, all of which I'm sure won't mean anything to you so I won't get in to it. However, I wanted to explain the new name of my blog. 

In high school, I remember being in my statistics class during senior year and hearing the term "the absolute value", and thinking dang that would be a sweet name for a band. So I decided back then that if I ever had a band (I mean duh isn't that the dream?) I would have that be the name. 

No guys, I'm not starting a band. Though I totally would if I knew anyone who wanted in ;) 

But when I decided to rename my blog I wanted something original and catchy. Obviously this came to my mind and I wanted to revisit what it actually meant. 

This is the definition that I have decided to give it after reading a few different definitions on the web. Not acknowledging the negative. Yes, that's a thing in math. When they say what is the absolute value of -4, it is 4. Just like that, the negative no longer MATTERS. I want to try my best to apply this to my life. When things seem to be too much, when I'm frustrated and angry, when I feel like everything is going wrong, I want to drop the negative! There is nothing good that comes from dwelling on it, so finding the absolute value of things rather than letting that stupid little negative in front of it get me down seems like it sure would make me and a lot of other people happy.

So I challenge you to do the same. Take those lame negative things and turn them in to something that drops the negative. You can do it for anything, I promise. Look at the bigger picture! Focus on what is positive! I think we all could use a little more positivity in our lives, don't you?