Many of the people closest to me are either cynics or pessimists. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had arguments just because I didn’t buy that something was as bleak or doomed as I was being told it was. What’s funny is that I’m not an optimist. I just believe that sometimes life sucks and sometimes life rocks and that you can just keep focusing on the stuff that rocks and learn from the stuff that sucks. It doesn’t always work. I don’t believe in optimists either. No one leads a truly charmed life and it’s pointless to think that everything is going to be good. Just real.

(message for linda: I make bad jokes, huh?)