Does "end up" have a negative connotation? [closed]

Maybe not, as some of the example usages in here, but it still has a negative feel to me. Is there some positive way that can be used instead?

Solution 1:

It doesn't have negative connotations in itself.

Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, and ended up the 16th president of the United States.

There are no negative connotations there.

If you keep that up, you'll end up in jail.

Here, there are no negative connotations from "end up" either. If we replaced "jail" with "the White House", it would be a positive sentence. "End up" has no bearing on the positive or negative connotations of a sentence.