Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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What can a person do to be more optimistic in life?
You know, these questions provide excellent fodder for my writing; however, I doubt that my specific brand of inspiration is quite what the Powers that Be had in mind.
I just have one thing to point out to you, okay? A slight bit of semantic philosophy. The featured question asks, "What can a person do to be more optimistic in life?"
Um, as opposed to WHAT? Being optimistic in death?
I just answered this Featured Question, you can answer it too!
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Comments (8)
Oh my gosh. You just made me laugh. Out loud. Even on a bad day you're hilarious.
Simple answer to both: lower your expectations.
Of course that's not what they're looking for.
If The Hold Steady are to be believed, pure dogged insistence is key: "We gotta stay positive!" Right now, I'm buying it, but that's just post-show afterglow.
That depends entirely on your definition of "life" and your definition of "dead." If you subscribe to a literal dictionary definition of those words, than your point is both valid and amusing. But consider what it means to be living.
If somebody is riddled with strong depression, low self esteem, and faltering will power, spending each and every day in bed without the motivation to even do so much as check the mail, is that really living?
And to take it further (since I seem to be on a roll), there are many ways to define death. If somebody has passed on, but an idea that they stood for lives on in hundreds of people, who choose to continue that person's life's work, is he/she really dead?
How's that for a bit of snarky food for thought? =p
Haha - so to be optimistic in life I need to hope for a good birth rate at the hospital?
Lol ~ L
ahh, you mistress of language, you!!!!
I love your FQ bashes! They make me laugh!