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Oct. 7th, 2004 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elvendollat some point recently (i'm totally spacing on the context), someone called me an optimist. it took me a second - i'd been so used to being a pessimist that i didn't realize it had changed. but i guess it has.
my grandmother always told me that everything happens for the best, and i used the phrase anecdotally. then, my car got broken into and again, my grandmother told me that everything happens for the best. my laptop, phone and wallet had just gotten stolen, and i just couldn't wrap my mind around how it could be anything but terrible. and yet, the incident became a catalyst to me making two very important and very positive decisions - and since then, i've started really believing that phrase.
also, that phrase that i heard the last time i was in shul - if you aren't enjoying everything you do, you aren't doing it right is a remarkably optimistic one, and one that i remind myself of when things are getting hairy.
it's kind of weird to be an optimist after spending more then 90% of my life as a pessimist.
my grandmother always told me that everything happens for the best, and i used the phrase anecdotally. then, my car got broken into and again, my grandmother told me that everything happens for the best. my laptop, phone and wallet had just gotten stolen, and i just couldn't wrap my mind around how it could be anything but terrible. and yet, the incident became a catalyst to me making two very important and very positive decisions - and since then, i've started really believing that phrase.
also, that phrase that i heard the last time i was in shul - if you aren't enjoying everything you do, you aren't doing it right is a remarkably optimistic one, and one that i remind myself of when things are getting hairy.
it's kind of weird to be an optimist after spending more then 90% of my life as a pessimist.
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Date: 2004-10-07 11:08 pm (UTC)There's no real point in worrying over anything. Things will probably turn out for the best, or at least they might.