Relentless Optimism
Relentless Optimism is seeing clouds and finding shapes.
Seeing puddles and thinking splashes.
Optimism is feeling the pain, the hurt, the destruction and moving because of it.
Optimism is asking why.
Optimism is running like you’re still five years old and the sprinkler is in the backyard for the first time.
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Optimism is accepting joy.
Optimism is searching for joy.
Relentless optimism looks for the unconventional, the unshapely, the beauty in every single thing because every single thing has beauty.
Optimism understands that things can be bad and laughs instead. Because even though some things are evil, that does not make them more powerful than the good.
The power is in a smile, a laugh, a good deed and in hope that the world can be better. The power is in honesty that does not accept cynicism.
They are not the same, the honest and the cynic. The cynic judges. The honest does not. The honest sees the reality of war and pain and hunger, and the optimist sees the potential for peace and healing and food.
Relentless optimism is faith, trust, and vulnerability. It’s also fun. Let’s go for it.
