As I picked up my weekly newsweek, one word came to mind to describe all the writers: cynical. And I presume that these writers are intelligent people since they are all very articulate and seem to support their opinions fairly well. And for some reason my urekha disappointed me; and I started to think of all the most intelligent people in my life, and they all are rather cynical. Now I don't know about you, but cynical is not a postive characteristic in my book. How come there is a connection between the two? And also I have noticed that cynical people do not seem to be as happy as optimists. Are optimists just happy by their choice not to look deeply into the corrupt world around them, or do they just see the good in everyone and in the world and realize things are not really that bad?
I myself prefer to be an optimist, and yes that livestyle can be hard. Sometimes your reasoning does not always answer why things happen, however it makes me happy. People and my government probably have and will take more advantage of me, and I might be more gullible than the next person. But being an optimist does not make one stupid, I would like to think myself rather clever and I know when I am blatantly being fooled. So I don't like to find the faults in my culture, the world and everyday life-is that so bad?
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