Last night my daughter asked me, "what do you call someone who always looks at the bright side of things?" I said, of course, "an optimist". "And what's the opposite?" she asked. "A pessimist." I asked her, already knowing the answer, "what are you?" "An optimist!" Thinking I knew what she'd say, I also asked, "what do you think I am?" She answered honestly, "it depends". Ouch.
My mantra is, "it could always be worse", so I definitely consider myself an optimist. But as a dear friend of mine often responds when I say that, "but does it have to be this bad?" Sometimes, I think it does, for us to appreciate the good. The more blessings we have in life, the more responsibilities, and the more potential for things to go wrong.
I truly believe I look at things from the "glass half full" perspective, rather than "half empty", but it'd sure be easier if my glass stopped getting knocked over!
"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?" - Rene Descartes, French philosopher
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