My War on Cynicism

[jupiterorbit]

I was talking to my best friend when she was here for a week, and a mutual former friend came up.  She still has contact with him occasionally, but she told me that she really had no desire to go actively look him up while she was down because of how he'd sounded in their last dozen or so phone calls.  She couldn't quite put her finger on it, that

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[hunrvogt]

Amen. Skepticism is good. Thinking is good.

That guy almost sounds like he has gone from cynicism to pessimism. Bill confess. Wil tired of the pessimism. Yes the world is tough. Do something to positively impact your portion of it. Don't respond to every solution with a can't be done. And if at the end of the day you really choose to take no action, then choose acceptance orr or recognize that you are the problem.

PS I keep meaning to tell you two if you are ever up towards Wilsonville, you should go to Dar Esalem. Great Morrocan food and the couple that owns that place are wonderful hosts. Plan on spending at least to hours on dinner.

[jupiterorbit]

Hey, thanks for the Moroccan recommendation. We'll have to check it out some time. I have to confess to a stupid flinch, though: for those of us who drive that stretch of I-5 regularly, Wilsonville is known as "the nexus of stupid". For some reason, traffic slows down starting there & extending about 5 miles north & behaves boneheadedly for no apparent reason. There was construction there for a while, granted, but it finished last year; it's as if the ghosts of cranes & bulldozers haunt drivers there.

[jupiterorbit]

And yeah (and it looks like you had a weird mobile malfunction on the typing, but oddly the guy's name is Will & he went by Bill in high school), Bill has pegged as pessimism, I think. He's in the habit of presenting as a cynic, though.

[hunrvogt]

Yay it should have read "I'll confess. I'm tired of the pessimism". But given his name it's funnier with the typo.

I like the hotels in Wilsonville. I'm very meh on most of the restaurants, but that place is awesome. Tell Dee and Abdullah that the female chicken doctor sent you (I was introduced to the place by my boss).

http://www.daressalam.org/

[jupiterorbit]

I can't say I've been to any of the hotels in Wilsonville, so I'll take your word for it. We're looking forward to going to Dar-es-Salam sometime soon.