Optimism and pessimism are both powerful forces, and each of us must choose which we want to shape our outlook and our expectations. There is enough good and bad in everyone’s life-- ample sorrow and happiness, sufficient joy and pain--to find a rational basis for either optimism or pessimism. We can choose to laugh or cry, bless or curse. It’s our decision: From which perspective do we want to view life Will we look up in hope or down in despair I believe in the upward look. I choose to highlight the positive and slip right over the negative. I am an optimist by choice as much as by nature.