It's always half-full...

[partly]

I was once described as being "aggressively optimistic". It seems an accurate description of me. I like to see the positive side of things. I enjoy the silver-lining and I will fight to find it

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[needtakehave]

Did something happen today to prompt this or just wanted to get it off your chest? *huggles*

[partly]

I've probably been watching too much news and reading too many commentaries on blogs in which the world is full of evil people. But mostly I think it's a reminder to me -- living in my world of much uncertainty and with very control over that uncertainty -- that I have do have control and choices if only in how I respond.

Oddly enough, this really wasn't the post I was planning on writing. That one will come, sometime.

[needtakehave]

LOL, well it probably came from my "About Me" post which is filled with the 'world is evil' type stuff :)

[talkingtocactus]

the world IS evil.

[talkingtocactus]

ha, i am so the total opposite, i'm a perma-pessimist. i'm always cynical, the glass is always at least half empty, and i always assume the worst, especially with regard to people who are all inherently mean, nasty, selfish and greedy. occasionally someone does something to make me think they're ok but it's quite unusual.

but hey, i guess having opposites is what makes things happen, right?

[partly]

i guess having opposites is what makes things happen

I like that. I've always felt that differences are what make people interesting and worth knowing.

This post probably makes me out to be more of a Pollyanna than I am. I come from a long line of German farmers and that has made me way too pragmatic to be blindly optimistic. A lot of my optimism comes from the knowledge that now matter how bad it is now, it can always get worse.

[talkingtocactus]

i agree, the world would be an extremely boring place if we all thought the same things.

haha yeah, germans aren't known for their blind optimism, much more for pragmatism, and the same goes for farmers!

i think my cynicism is possibly because i'm not that bothered what happens to me (i've had plenty of near death experiences and y'know, whatever) but that i look at the world and all i can see is exploitation and abuse and power grabbing and war and ARGH! it makes me kind of ashamed to be human really.

[needtakehave]

^ This.