Pessimistically Honest
It's ironic that I titled my blog "Optimistically Cautious," because that's probably just a hopeful state of mind for me - more people know me as a keen pessimist. It's not something readily embraced, so it was refreshing for me to read Luke Foster's column this week in Vue Weekly, which I thought accurately reflected my own thoughts on the start of a new year on paper:
"I don’t understand how the end of something—the end of the year—can be met with such optimism, every time it comes around. And how people believe over and over that this year, this year is going to be different. I’m going to become something that I’m not, do something new that I’ll hate, meet people that I won’t be able stand. What’s so wrong with you now? You’re probably kind of boring, but you’re still you."
Spot on. There's really nothing more I can, or want to add.
posted by Sharon @ 9:42 PM
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I am reminded of Semisonic's classic 1998 hit "Closing Time" which features the following lyric:
"every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
That's why there's optimism! Nothing really ends.
Perhaps. But I guess I'm a glass half empty kind of gal - there may be no end, but that in itself isn't reason enough to think that there's something better around the corner. Just something new or different.
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