In the same way, optimism is a choice. Hope is at the center of the optimist's heart. It fuels them to their very core. Quite frankly, a man has to be out of his mind to believe in hope. It is a completely insane venture.
Consider for a moment what the world would look like if you chose to embrace that madness?
Would you inspire others? Would you finally be able to bring joy to those around you? Would your hope become the world's hope?
The future is a notion paved with fear and worry. The truth of the matter is pessimism is a more realistic approach to life. Everything that fuels the pessimist comes from fire sparked from disappointment in others. People let the pessimist down which brings us to the slow decline into cynicism, or death of the soul (wording is subjective).
I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to accept a realistic approach to living. I want to dream bigger than what's in front of me and I want to do so holding onto an ever elusive hope. Hope of change. Hope of growth. Hope of life.
It's sad that our world has come to a state where madness and insanity is the state of mind you need to have so as to hope in that brighter and better tomorrow. I like your insight into pessimisn and cynicism, seems to be spot on. It does decay. It is a choice. More so, you use the words ever elusive to describe the fleeting hope in our hearts, which I though was the precise wordage. Good post Chris!
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