People look at optimists as if they’re talking nonsense, as if they are unfit to live in a society like ours, not in a bad way or anything, but as if their only power to give society is hope and a longing for goodness. As if optimists are easily to be manipulated because they are gullible and naïve; they’re illogical and unreasonable. Pessimists and realists look at optimists as if they are this soft, “cute” beings that looks for the elusive peacefulness our world ultimately is destined of. Optimists often become lingering shadows, hidden and silenced.
Don't shoot the optimist.
Our world loses optimists day by day due to the crimes and cruelties we face.
However, an optimist ensures a pessimist’s skepticism and doubts by seeking an opportunity in every difficulty. It’s the strength to challenge the struggle and restraints and having the power to overlook all the bad that makes an optimist a more successful being than anyone else.
Every day someone dies.
Every day a natural disaster overtakes someone’s homeland; every day we encounter fatal disasters which may cloud the sun’s light that is supposed to shone. A fatalist is a believer that carries doom and gloom within their hearts, a believer that is always at odds whatever the situation may be. But an optimist has the inscribed bravery of a warrior to defeat that darkness by looking at the some good over all the bad events, by finding a favorable side of life and expecting a favorable outcome out of the many misfortunes raining all around us.
Every saying has a meaning.
When someone asks, “Is the cup half-empty or half-full?” a realist might answer, “Just drink the water” because to them, in the end, it’s water; they present things as they are in that moment of time.
Realists live in the moment. In opposition, optimists will analyze the situation and find meaning behind the words. That determination is what makes an optimist strong-willed and strong-minded in any situation which will push for a change.
“Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward…I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat…” Nelson Mandela
Optimism isn’t just hope or constant happiness; it’s the continuous struggle to move forward and find meaning, value, solutions in every depth of trouble. It’s the lightening that strikes through every dark cloud, the love that has no color, race, gender or religion, the fruit that contains a seed, the spread of goodness. The yesterdays may hold anger, grief, confusion but the present is to look for tomorrows that hold hopes and invitations to overcome the darkness that bears within our bodies and the societies around us.
Optimists are the weapons to fight the struggle we live in by pushing against the fear that consumes us. A legendary traveler Alain Bombard, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean alone in a boat without food or water once said,
“In the ocean, it is not loneliness, thirst, hunger or sharks that kill people. The fear does.”
What doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger. Optimism beats fear, beats darkness, beats the prejudices and injustices stabbed into Mother Earth.
Optimists do not see enemies; they see the good in all, they believe that every human has a beating heart with dreams and goals and emotions. Their friendliness brings peace, their admiration creates friendships, their passion becomes a masterpiece of a colorful world instead of a black and white sketch that can easily be faded over time.
Time to reveal that the once hidden and silenced shadows because optimists are warriors in battle to complete the beautiful mosaic glass of a sun that once lost its rays and stars that once lost its glow.
When the sun meets the moon in among the skies, and the color of the skies fade to a golden orange, and the thunder rolls in, and the rain starts to pour, while the light from the sun and the moon shine's simultaneously, that’s when we become one for eternity but until then, optimists will and shall continue to fight to find the supreme good and love that is hidden in the darkest depths of Earth.
