Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:24 AM
Another take on optimism
A friend said to me last night after a heavy conversation, I wish every bad or sad thing that happened in my life could be fast forwarded over so we could be happy and see the perfect outcome. As ,ugh as my optimism prevails, I think that's a red extreme. I used to think like that though. Every single time something bad happened, I would think to myself, dang when is this gonna end? Why can't I just skip all this stuff and go to when I'm happy?
At the time it all made sense and even now it still does but I feel like without these downs we can't really go up. We would lose all these valuable lessons that teach, mould and shape us to become who we are.
I know I still do have this mindset sometimes but it's important to me, to try and change it because it reinforces a false reality and gets me thinking of things that I would like to happen but aren't really gonna happen.
I suppose if things were easy all the time we wouldn't really be living, maybe it's the hard things that we truly desire in life.
Who knows.