It’s great to be optimistic. It makes you try things.

But that doesn’t mean you’re always expecting for good things to happen. Or that someone will save you.

It just means that you’ll push through whatever it takes. It’s either you do it or regret not doing it. Doesn’t matter the outcome is.

Now that’s something. That’s an incredible feeling. It energizes you. And it’s so infectious.

That’s the emotional state everyone needs whenever they want to start something.

Every time I meet an optimist, I can’t help but feel inspired.

But life is not perfect. Sometimes you meet a pessimist.

And that’s perfectly fine as well. I just try to understand where they’re coming from. And most of the time, that’s because something bad happened to them in the past and they thought it would also be the case for everything and everyone.

There’s a difference between learning from a bad experience then losing hope and learning from a bad experience but not losing hope.

The bad experience — although, they’re not really bad, it’s just our interpretation that makes them bad — serves as a reminder for us to appreciate a good experience.

Because we have to experience the bad ones to appreciate the really good ones. Hence, the paradox of life.

Being an optimist doesn’t mean all your experiences were good…

It just means that you can see past all the negativity and come out hopeful.

It means that you accept whatever life did to you in the past and still look forward to a brighter future.

It means that you choose to live.