It takes a certain mindset, a certain strength to be optimist, to believe that despite how messed up life is now, it will eventually get better.
They say the true darkness is not the absence of light, but the conviction that light will never rise again.
It takes a certain courage to defy reality, to shits in it's face and say, " well, fuck you!, you do not control me. see!, reality is a tyrant, a mean bully that likes to tell us what to do,to think and what to see. optimists are rebels, challenging his dictatorship. they are people who are choosing to look at the silver lining even when it's not there, they live for the calm after the storm.
They don't believe the light will rise again, they believe it was never gone at the first place..