Musings

Why Would-be Optimist? It’s so easy to slip into being a grouch. As we get older life becomes more of a challenge. The greater challenge is to stop moaning about it and look at the causes from a different angle. Ok. I know that sounds too much like ‘Pollyanna’. How those stories irritated me when I was a girl! I suppose young people today would express their reactions as,’It winds me up’ or ‘It gets on my wick’. Well, not wanting to have,intentionally,that affect I’m attempting to turn pessimism on its head – for my own sake not particularly anyone elses. So,here goes. Some people are terribly nice to me to the extent that one can feel slightly patronised. How grouchy is that?! So from now on I’m going to be grateful for their caring attitude and that there is a section of the community prepared to be TNTM (if you don’t get those initials you’re not on my wavelength!)