Excellent post my friend.
And I totally agree. While I'm am optimist By nature, I am also REALIST.
Good thing happen - and shit things happen. It's called life.
I wonder if the 'eternally positive ' person is actually levelling out the emotional range in their lives?
- If it's a bad experience -find the positive - but does that also mean when the good things happen, they level it out NOT to feel too happy about the genuinely good things that happen...?
Almost like an emotional regulator, where the two extremes are areas their own minds are not comfortable in....?
(just a thought that crossed my mind while reading your post, and might be total BS - but never thought about it that way before...)
Yup, shit things DO happen. And a shit sandwich doesn't become a cream puff, just because you keep calling it one. It's still a shit sandwich.
You raise a really interesting point there... specifically, I don't remember "M" celebrating her successes. It was more like she took them for granted... like "that's how it's supposed to be." Gonna have to go away and think a bit more about that...
yeah, it was a new thought that just came to me...interesting though....