Optimism For Beginners

Some people find it very difficult to look on the good things in life. It can be difficult to see past the small things that get in your face and make everything else seem shitty

That can be the bills, colleagues, your job, friends, family, neighbours, any freewheeling shitmonkey who wants to piss on your personal part of the earth, or the fact that you are not what you fondly thought you'd always be.

All that can be hard. But take some solace here.

1. You don't look like this.
2. You don't do things like this.
3. You don't get a gifts like this.
Images shamelessly trousered from Knuckledraggin' My Life Away.

4. You and I aren't at war. A friend of mine, Simon, wrote a post about Remembrance Day recently. His father grew up fatherless due to WWII, and it's thought provoking. It's moving. It's also the type of reflection on such things that put them in perspective for people like me, that war hasn't touched personally and who have only the dimmest idea of such things.

I urge you to go and read it.