I try, I really do. I regularly make lists of things I like, I count my blessings each day (and trust me, there are many) and I challenge myself to turn bad into good and sail through life on a cloud of endless optimism. I take time to notice snowdrops in Spring, I have fun buying colourful hats and scarves in Winter, I even buy people February presents sometimes to cheer up the dreariest month.
Yet I can't help feeling that Pollyanna, protagonist and title character of the 1913 classic was just a little unrealistic. Bad stuff happens and sometimes you don't float along on a cloud, you have a cloud over your head - a dark looming black one. Of course I'd never consciously set out to promote a rival "Bad Game" but I just think it's OK not to be glad all the time.
So I'm starting a blog with both - the good the bad the both.
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