You’ve got a friend who likes to think she’s an expert on every subject under the sun. Whatever the topic, she jumps right in and dominates the conversation. One night you’re at a party and a male friend is talking about his recent surgery. Naturally, your friend is right there. “Oh, yes, I remember when I had my prostate surgery,” she declares loudly. “It was awful!” Assuming you can keep a straight face, what do you say?
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You’ve achieved the fourth and final round of interviews for a cushy job that would allow you to spend most of the day surfing the internet, talking in chat rooms, and instant messaging your jealous friends. The office loves you and your superb resume, and they even laugh heartily at all of your jokes. There’s only one catch. The final interview includes a background check to get the job, and three years ago you were arrested for stealing a priceless antique Rolex watch off the corpse of your despised ninety year old Uncle Virgil. How will you explain this to your potential employer?
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THE OPTIMISM IN THE CURRENT WORLD IS VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM. EACH AND EVERY NATION SHOULD TAKE EFFECTIVE STEPS TO DEMOLISH THE OPTIMISM IT WILL GIVE THE PEACE AND SAFE FOR THE PEOPLE
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I am optimistic about the youth of America. I believe they will come through their “the world is all about me and my friends” stage and become responsible and mostly caring men and women. I’ve seen it happen over and over again regardless of the current state of the world.
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I have a little boy. Occasionally I find myself staring too hard at the news, worrying too much about the things that are far beyond my control, and often, my understanding. I try to reflect back on things my grandparents taught me. They lived through the Great Depression, and understood what it meant to be hungry, to not have enough. I think about the lessons they taught me on gratitude, and a spirit of thanksgiving.
I don’t want times to be hard for my little boy. I want to pave the road and slay all the dragons for him…but I can’t, and I won’t. I do believe that in crisis, there is opportunity. Opportunity to learn, to grow, to challenge and change.
So I’m optimistic about my ability to take the lessons that were taught to me, and to pass them on to my little boy, no matter what is going on in the world around us.
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Amateurism is funny just because it seems like it would have very little opportunity for use. Usually someone accuses another person of BEING an amateur, not of exhibiting amateuristic qualities or of displaying amateurism. It just seems funny that the word exists when there appears to be so little use for it.
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In general, I know that even when things stink, they’ll always get better. I can’t wait until my husband finishes school so that we’ll be more financially stable. And I know that he will, since I know he’s determined to do so. I know that we’ll be able to move forward with our lives and focus more on what will be instead of what might be. Besides, if I can’t look forward with hope, I would find it hard to move forward day to day at all. Things keep on changing, and eventually, spring blooms again, even when everything seems dark, bleak, and dead.
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Don’t get me started on bipedalism.
It’s bad enough to be caught fiddling with children once, but twice? Throw away the key I say.
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Lots of bad things happen. But God is in control over everything. God’s mind is much bigger than ours, so we don’t really know why things happen as they do. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense to us. Often it doesn’t. But it does to God. Job’s suffering didn’t make sense to Job but from God’s perspective, He allowed Job to suffer so we can understand something about God in relation to human heartbreak. So, no matter what happens, I’m optimistic because God is in control. I may not like what is happening, and God’s plan for me may be difficult (think of the Apostle Paul’s life), but God is in control and I’m not. That’s a good thing!
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I´m optimistic because I’ve a wonderful wife and two wonderful sons, my job as a teacher let me feel good with what I’m doing, altough the day-by-day problems. So, I think that this bad economic climate is only beacause of the neo-liberal politics that were in charge for the last years and now that almost understood that the economy will return to grown again. Not that the economy is my problem: I live with a very little amount of money, but it seems that is the problem of “all the people”, not only of the real poor people, as it should be.
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