I can't remember where I found that or even who said it. I had put it on my main Diaryland profile. I translated it but not a moment ago.
This too is like when someone dies
Interestingly enough I think I was relating that statement to life, as out of place as it may seem. I think that people often take for granted life as they have it. I know I do. I complain so much about how my life is miserable and shitty and inexorably mundane and disappointing. But I should be happy that my life exists as it does for I don't believe death would be much better.
In trying to look at the bright side of things I find it extremely challenging.
"The reason we like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of oursevles. The basis of optimism is sheer terror[...]I have the greatest contempt for optimism."
~OScar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I find optimism to be hard to believe in because there are so many things that can (and often do) go wrong. There are only a handful of things that ever go one's way. Belief in reality and the existence of one's self in today's world requires a little bit of cynicism, pessimism, and acrid awareness. It's in cynicism that one fights conformity and cheerfulness that society would have us be under all the time.
So, I for one will take the pessimistic approach any day. Call me brash, call me unfeeling, call me what you will. But know that you may never call me overly hopeful or naïve...for it would be untrue.
*Always.
Caitlin
Sometimes those most worthy of love are not made happy by it. ~Dangeous Liaisons
It is on the strength of observation that one finds a way; so we must dig and delve unceasingly. ~Claude Monet 1840-1926