Negative self-talk consists of the belief that reality is basically unfriendly to you personally, while it’s basically friendly to others. But reality doesn’t have a will and consciousness of its own. Reality doesn’t arbitrarily and unjustly pick out some people to attain happiness and others to be denied it. People who believe in supernaturalism DO believe this, and they project it on to ‘God.’ People who believe in social determinism (socialists, liberals, psychotherapists) DO believe this and they project it on to society, or some equivalent force. But if you reject all that, and put reason above falsehoods, then you say, ‘Reality is neither for me, nor against me.”