Wherever Domino is going, I want to be invited. I don’t believe in such fantasies, but it sounds AMAZING. I am a realist, optimist, pessimist about different things. It really depends on the category. I am very optimistic with my irl crowd, but very cautious/pessimistic about everything in cyberspace. It is hard not to be pessimistic about political events, people are such idiots sometimes. I just wish the general population in the US could be kinder, smarter, more inclusive, and believe in the things that truly uplift society. The false narratives, gullibility and cruelty of humanity can just lurk beneath the surface, everywhere it seems. I am very optimistic about the students I have taught: they are incredibly creative, whip-smart, and have a deep empathy for each other, in general. I hate the world they are inheriting, oceans decimated, ice caps melting, and young bodies full of plastic. There is the realist popping up. Those are simple facts. Pessimism to me, is overly negative without basis or facts, realists look towards facts. I do have to say there are a few online relationships that have surprised me with their kindness and honesty. They know who they are.

Idealist. I dream of the day Lime gets good at boggle.

I used to be a pessimist. At some point in my life I became an unconvenient hardcore realist and meanwhile I consider myself a parttime optimist - not always in the present but in retroperspectice. Can't really say why. Maybe because things in life repeat and because they do, you know that the last time something bad happened, you survived. And the older I get, the more I understand, that everything that happens to you, happens for a good reason. At least the things I survived so far;-) If I got hit by a bus tomorrow I am not sure if this would make any sense to me. On the other hand...I imagine me sitting on a cloud, throwing away the harp and turning on the boom box instead, sharing dirty jokes with my fellow angels, smoking good stuff, being constantly drunk from heavenly wine....this would be fun not only in retrospective. Let's hope God is an optimist because I am a bad girl:-)

I used to be an over-the-top optimist but….people. Now I am just over-the-top.