being negative or being careful?

" As we are immersed in this negative attitude and have


grown up more in the shade than in the light, it is often difficult

for us to be positive and to see a glass as half full rather

than as half empty. Yet it is just this - the need to be optimistic

- that is the great challenge in our lives. We must

muster all our strength and energy to ignore the rain and the

damp and to delight in the colours of autumn, to appreciate

the beauty of the snow in winter without thinking of the

effort required to clear it, to wonder at the miracle of

reawakening nature in the spring without complaining of the

allergies that come with it, and to experience the pleasant

sensation of the warmth of the summer sun without worrying

too much about the gnats. Even the yellow colour of the

leaves in autumn can be seen in two different ways: as the

colour the leaves have taken from the summer sun to give

back to us in autumn or simply as a sign of the withering and

approaching death of the leaves."

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I do think I am a positive thinker.. but I don't believe that life is merely a journey of appreciating beauty as it is, but one of improvement and acting on things that protects lives so that these beautiful lives we are enjoying can last for a longer time? No? So interrreeeeesssssttiiinnnng wan.

But I guess this is what keeps me going in the long haul. Reaching for the skies, yet being prepared in case I fall, so it gives me strength to pick myself up and keep going. I guess that's why I am a realistic idealist rather than an idealist, but I guess also, I am easily contented and not ambitious. Oh whatever. :)
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