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Positivity is Just a Skill. Nothing More
Nobody was born positive and that’s a good thing.
It’s incredible how we often instantly categorize people as optimist or pessimist.
A simple reply to a certain statement and we’re set in a small box.
When looking at a glass with half the water left, you can say it’s half-full or half-empty. Which is right? Both obviously.
We all know both ways of saying and yet, we all have one of the two answers which will come straight away.
Optimism is a term to forget
To be an optimist is a characteristic of character but, in reality, the word comes from the Latin “Optimum” which means “the best thing of all”.
Optimism is thus only focusing on the best.
The world, however, will never be “the best”. It will always have things to improve and as such a person who is an optimist is forgetting the negative part of the world.
If there was no negative, no hardships, our lives would be dull! Nothing to improve would mean constant disinterest by all of us.
If we should forget the word “optimism”, what could replace it?
