I tend to want to believe there's no middle ground just as you've also said, but then, I try to balance it all out. I think life makes us either optimists or pessimists. We didn't start out choosing to be whatever we are. For me. I like to look at reality as the gold standards. For me, instead of optimism I just like to say I have faith in God which is completely different from being positive or optimistic.
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Right. Achieving a middle ground is really hard but I think adopting a faith in God then building up from there can be incredibly powerful. Despite having this agency to be an optimist or pessimist, you can also have this knowing that whatever happens will be for your own good even if it's not apparent to you at the moment. That in itself reducing a lot of the burden with anxiety for the future also.
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