Optimism is setting an alarm for 6 ‘o’clock in the morning knowing that ass ain’t getting up before 8.
Optimism is reaching class 15 minutes late thinking the teacher will just let you sit in.
Optimism is saying “ache din aane wale hai” and making a nation believe you (well it did make you vote).
Optimism is thinking you’ll someday marry that girl knowing she is right now in a relationship with someone else. Ouch.
Optimism is studying the night before and still having the confidence to pass the next day. (Engineers will get that one. )
In the simplest of terms, optimism is the stable tendency to think good rather than bad things will happen.( By Scheier and Carver)
The way I see it, the best stories are results of optimism.
For example, read this excerpt,
“I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
– Steve Jobs
What if when Steve Jobs was fired he said to himself,” life’s shit, I‘m done bruh.”
His optimism gave him hope, and his hope gave us something worth to sell our kidneys for. JK.
Optimism has a lot to do with how much you believe in yourself. Instead of thinking about his failures as the end of the world, he thought of them as a RESET button. And yes I understand we’re not all Steve Jobs, but we are somebody right?
So for anyone who’s reading this ,
There’s always going to be a problem you will want to throw a chair at. There will always be people trying to put you down and there will come a time when you can’t do anything but give up, then give up. So you can reset.
May this week give you the strength to see the good in the shittiest of problems.
thanks for reading peeps 🙂
ark Ruffalo, Dickinson College, May 17
“I’m asking each of you, at some point, to act up—be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You’re the ones to do it. Your world, like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine. And never in the history of mankind has it been so available to so many people to do that thing.”
the jobless mind 