Sue, you mentioned in one of your messages a while back that you should focus on the positive, or at least on a balance of positive or negative, when you try to help people.

Why do you think this is so hard for most people to do?

D

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Usually the negative is so much more dramatic, and people enjoy their dramas very much.

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I think many people also feel the negative things are real and positive things have more of a fake feel to them. So we believe the negative stuff more than the positive.

But it's interesting that we weren't always that way, a problem that really saddens us. In the 50s, from what I hear, we felt like we could do anything.

Is there any way to bring some of that optimism back?

D

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Maybe men felt that way in the fifties. Women were more or less appendages, who were supposed to live through their husbands and children. Not a good time at all.

In the 60s there were many positive changes, and that kept on through the first part of the 70s. But it now seems that apathy reigns supreme sometimes. On the other hand, the results from the last election were quite promising.

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Lots of conservative democrats, though.

As you know I'm conservative myself so the election's changes were not that appealing, but I think reading too much meaning into them would be a mistake.

I think pessimism overall reigns supreme, and that results in apathy.

Thoughts?

D

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