Putting on your headphones while traveling on a busy train usually can lead to some pretty great discoveries about the people around you. I experienced that level of introspection traveling down to Philadelphia one Saturday morning.

Most people, especially on a crowded train compartment, are glued to their phones. Texting their loved ones, scrolling through Facebook and reading the news. Any number of these things prevent people from taking a look around them and noticing the little things.

I decided, instead of reading my electronic copy of "Big Little Lies" (a rather delightful read if you are bored and want to pick up a book), to look up for once and look around me. I glanced, taking in the bowed heads and the blank stares out of the window, and landed on a young high-school couple. They wore matching high-school sweatshirts and were lovingly holding hands. It was sweet to look at and made me smile. He leaned in and whispered something to her, brown bangs obscuring his eyes, and she looked up and laughed.

What gets me are her eyes. Bright blue like the ocean and ones anyone could get lost in. Pretty in the way that a painting in a museum would be. Underneath the picturesque beauty lies the deepest hope and optimism for him. In her blue orbs, she holds all of the joy and love for life because everything to her is beautiful and rosy.

Edith Piaf coined the expression "La Vie en Rose" which translates to "Life in Pink." This reference has been used many a time to describe a life where everything (read: literally everything) is full of bright hope. In her song, it talks about giving your heart and soul in order to live a life full of joy.

One would think Ms. Piaf meant that only a boy would make you happy in such an extreme level that you see everything tinged in pink. However, I think she means that optimism is a treasure that operates far too much in black and white. When everything is rosy, the world opens up with many possibilities and delights.

Our young couple on the train knows this optimism very well. Whether they grow up as high school sweethearts or drift apart in the advent of college, they both know what it means to feel something akin to love. It is a lesson that a lot of us lack as we move away from childhood and into the real world.

Cynicism drives a majority of us away from being optimistic. It is always that crap happens to us and never does it happen to anyone else. The boy breaking up with you, spilt coffee on your favorite new blouse and a loved one moving away to name a few. Pink tinged perspectives turn anything negative into positive. Likewise, it does not involve anyone else.

As I got off the train that day and walked into the sunlight, I made a promise that if ever life throws curve balls, I would start looking at those situations with rose colored lenses and see the good in the face of darkness.

Thank you, my girl with the rose colored lenses, and keep dreaming big things.