Optimism!

I'm on a quest of sorts, you could say.

Yes, I am venturing out of my bubble and seeking what we all want: inner peace.

I know through my previous posts that I come off as a generally happy person, but let me be the first one to say that I am definitely not always happy and quite frequently find myself having to be pulled out of a slump.

Not fun. Not fun at all.

I've experienced things that most teenagers my age have probably not experienced. No, I'm not saying "I live a harder life!" What I am saying is that I have been through quite the ordeals  that really scared me and made me realize how fragile life is. It's so hard to build up a joyful life and yet it can shatter in all of a minute.

I'm not going to go into the details; personally it's something I don't feel like sharing and I know my privacy is respected. But I will say that what my family and I went through really shook up our lives and we are still recovering. Slowly but surely, we can make peace with the situation.

There are always going to be those days where you just want to crawl into a hole and never be found. Believe me, I have those days. But I do think it's very important to keep your head held high. When you wake up the next morning, you should be thinking: "Wow, I survived that horrible day, and I have a new day ahead of me to smile at and welcome."

I can't tell you "it will get better" because honestly, I am not a psychic and I have no idea. But what I do know is that being optimistic will always get you further. I know it's about ten times easier to be a pessimist and complain about everything. You go on Twitter or Facebook and all you see is all the nay-sayers complaining about this and that. But being pessimistic all the time just makes you feel negative. And it conditions you to always view things negatively.

I love the saying "Look at the glass half full, not half empty." The pessimist views it as half empty, because they jump to the negative side right away. The optimist sees it half full, and feels more content because they see the positive in a situation.

I am always telling myself to be optimistic. I find that when I go through a bad situation, being optimistic calms me down while being pessimistic churns my engines (and I can get angry really fast; you don't want to see me angry). If I forget my homework at home, I can calmly explain it to my teacher instead of having a bitch fit. If I hear someone said something bad about me, I can realize that the person who said what was said doesn't fully know me and should get to before he/she judges, instead of flipping a shit at them.

Optimism is fun. :) And it has definitely helped me on my quest to find peace with myself and who I am. Happy almost Easter everyone. Enjoy the life you live.

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