It doesn’t hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. ~ Lucimar Santos de Lima
Maybe this is why I’m basically optimistic – I’m a great procrastinator! LOL
And yet there are things like ignored climate change, resistance to reasonable gun control, bombings and mass shootings, resistance to aid in natural disasters, refusal to acknowledge that women can and should be able to control their own bodies, blaming rape on the victims and not on the perpetrators, and so on. These are things that make me want to cry, among so much else.
I know. I decry these things and yet, often, even as I’m feeling bad about them I have this underlying feeling that "the universe is unfolding exactly as it should." Where that feeling comes from, I don’t know. Maybe that’s optimism. Or rosy colored glasses. Or faith.
In any case, I wish I didn’t feel bad about them and instead let the optimism take over. Maybe my ego just likes to feel in control and when it obviously is not, it (not "I") feels bad.
Somehow I feel it’s all going to be all right – which doesn’t mean it’ll be easy getting there, that’s for sure. I just wish I could tap into that underlying feeling more fully and the overlying one much less.
Very interesting, Sam. This world needs more optimism and I don’t mean the rose-colored- glasses kind. I am reminded of the serenity prayer in what you say,know what you can change, accept what you can’t and have the wisdom to know the difference. Thanks for another thought-provoking post.
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Thanks, Kathy. The Serenity Prayer is one of my favorites, along with Desiderata. It seems that while I’m a philosophical optimist, my ego works really hard at being a thoughtless pessimist. But once in a while it slips up and that’s so nice! LOL Thanks for coming by.
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I so agree with what you are saying. I remember, my minister (the only one I have EVER claimed as I have a problem with the idea of “hell” and so did he – he was Science of Mind ). Anyway, after 9/11, he said it was a rebirth and that giving birth is painful but something beautiful comes out of it. I can’t help but be optimistic. In fact, that is what my novel is about. Last night, we watched “The Impossible” and I was so taken by the locals all doing their best to save as many tourists as they could. Of course, the Thai are some of the kindest people on earth.
As long as there are people like them and people like us, things should work out o.k.
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I agree, Sherrie, that a rebirth is in process and as so many have mentioned, it’s a difficult process and much too long for my taste. Then again, the Age of Aquarius is about 2,000 years long (have I got that right?) so in the bigger picture, it probably isn’t that long. The first chapter of my memoir says something similar to this only I make it more about birthing a new Self. Which is not much fun, either. *G* Sometimes it’s hard to hold on to optimism or at least put on an optimistic face even though one knows “everything is unfolding exactly as it should.”
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