Without it, we tend towards defeatism, hopelessness and victim-consciousness…with it, we risk being vulnerable, needy or optimistic in the face of life…but I’d rather hope and be proven wrong on occasion, than to be hopeless and wait for life to happen to me by someone else’s rules. If I’m going to fade, or be defeated, I’m going to do it on my terms, and not on the terms of someone dictating what my happiness or misery should be.
