Optimism
I’ve always been the optimist… well, not always, but recently, for the past decade of my life at least. Recently I’ve been wondering when you realize that maybe you’re wrong? I mean, the whole crux of optimism is that things are going to get better, right? So, when do you decide that they aren’t?? When do you concede that years and years of NOT getting better might be the norm? That things might always trend downwards? That optimism is a scam???
They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine on new technology,
and now I understand the problems you can see.
Oh-wa oh
I met your children
Oh-wa oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
2 comments November 01 2005 6:51 am | Pepperguy | Grant
Pessimism is overrated too, but at least when you expect the worst and it does happen, you’re not caught off guard. But then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why doesn’t optimism become a self-fulfilling prophecy, or does it and we just haven’t practiced it long enough? Maybe we should ask Job . . .
Why are all of my conservative and/or Republican friends suddenly saying this same kind of thing?! Has the obvious finally caught up to guys? I will remain an optimist… terminally. While I have unfortunately learned that things don’t necessarily HAVE to get better, they usually do eventually. Or, at least, the bad things of now get replaced by new ones that seem better for a while. Hang in there. Oh-wa oh-wa… I’m diggin the lyrics! By the way, you can just ignore LAK, she’ll only bring you down! ha