Others' Optimism

[magister]

As a child in the 1980s, I remember hearing all kinds of famous people having optimism and hope and positive words to say about life in general, and you could hear the sincerity in their words. I remeber hearing icons being tight-lipped about the negative details of life because they simply didn't want to burden anyone with things that wasn't their

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[violachic]

Was it really that way, or did it just seem that way because we were children? Children are smarter than adults ever give them credit for, but I think everyone is born an optomist.

Does the world suck more now, or do we just see more clearly how much it sucks than we did as children?

[magister]

I've thought of that a lot, and I used to assume that it was childhood's sugar-coated reality. But lately, I think we try harder to be something less positive, as if we've all been a little hurt in the past and don't want to be fooled