Posted by Margarita Navarrete-Hutchinson on Monday, January 13, 2020,
Today I had a conversation with a friend about the semantics of "optimism."
She took it to mean "positive to the extreme," which in my opinion would be more akin to "blind optimism"--believing that everything is going to work out because it "always does" due to some sort of magical belief.
The opposite would be "blind pessimism"--like the belief that one is "cursed," and thus "doomed to suffer."
My perspective of optimism, is that one accepts that life has challenges, and that it's not always e...
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