A pessimist would say

                                                                             that this article is at best a

                                                                          second rate Buzz-feed post with

                                                                        an expected readership of five people,

                                                                      two of which remembered to put this

                                                                   newsletter in their spam folder for the next

                                                               month. An optimist would say it might become

                                                             the best article ever written. A realist would silent-

                                                         ly agree with the pessimist. But who wants to listen to

               pessimists? With their negative attitudes and their snarky behavior. We live in a

          time of feel-good content: “Vines that will bring back your faith in humanity”, “Ten

       ways to have fun during COVID” and so on. We have a compulsory need to find the good

     in every situation no matter how bad. This is not inherently bad, hope and the likes are

    what ultimately gets us through hard times. But when this faux positivity gets repeated    

  everywhere and anytime ad nauseam it just becomes annoyingly out of touch. Who know 

  maybe we might enjoy content like this in the future:
  “Vines to make you forget about the opioid epidemic”, “Ten ways how the Plague could have

    been more fun”, “Grandma might be dead but the inheritance screams “VACATION!””
      Some things are objectively shitty and finding a silver lining in them is like telling someone

        on the Titanic to stop and listen to the music. I mean sure the ship might be sinking  and

           death by drowning is imminent but how often do you get to listen to an open-ended  

             concert (free of charge nonetheless). Maybe some things are simply not meant to be 

                  positive. Some more positively inclined readers, if there even are any left, might say

                     that this way of thinking doesn’t help the situation but I wholeheartedly disagree.

                             I receive way more pleasure from perpetually complaining about everything

                                    that is happening, a luxury that any true optimist cannot indulge in too

                                           often without having to read another self-help book. Most times it is

                                                  nice to take a situation for what it is and to ignore the need to 

                                                        embellish everything. The constant fleeing from experi-

                                                            encing the unpleasant makes us forget what being hu- 

                                                                man is really about. Namely perpetually complaining

                                                                    about everything without doing anything to

                                                                        change the world around oneself. Might not

                                                                             sound like the most productive of activi-

                                                                                ties but you sure have a lot of time

                                                                                      to come up with argu-

                                                                                          ments justifying

                                                                                                   it.

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