Sometimes you just have a little faith in the universe that life will work itself out. Why I remain an optimist despite all the times that life, the universe in general, or people have kicked me while I was down, I don’t know. But somehow, after maybe wallowing in some self-pity for a bit, I find myself left with a deep, abiding faith that my life isn’t so bad, that good things are coming, that the right in my life far exceeds the wrong.
The Facebooks likes to give me my history of whatever I posted on that same day from year to year. It’s become clear that in my early facebooking days I was practicing my Vaguebooking rather than any type of substantial post. I was accused of only posting positive things on the InterWebs for all to see. That’s not entirely accurate, but it is true that I rarely post about the truly negative, and I’m far more likely to post something that makes me happy than something that upsets me. I think I know why. I don’t like to air my troubles in a public forum. Most of my troubles pale in comparison to anyone with actual bad crap happening in their lives, and some people take it as a personal challenge to come up with something harder to endure than anything I’m going through.
I don’t post about my weight loss journey much on Facebook. I’ve already written a blog post detailing most of that. I haven’t mentioned that I desperately need surgery on my shoulder to fix the advanced arthritis and bursitis that has me in chronic pain. I’m out of leave, so I can’t actually do it right now. Well, I could take unpaid leave, and probably will.
Faith. The belief that there’s something better, higher, bigger than myself, than the miserable crap that any person can be going through. The truth is, we all go through tough times, face tough issues. What may seem like an insurmountable mountain of burdens to one human is another person’s piece of cake. What one person takes for granted as an easy task/issue/emotion may be the hardest thing in the universe to someone else. It’s a matter perspective and opinion.
I like my life as an optimist.
CraftyLizard 