Personally, I don’t get all the doom-mongering, hand-wringing despair that everyone else seems to take part in. I like to see things a bit more positively:
I spend my days working with professional, pleasant, creative, industrious people.
When I go home, I eat decent inexpensive food, maybe watch some interesting creative television. If I want to go out, I stroll down the local High Street which is not on fire, and where I’m never stabbed, and can actually be quite pleasant on a warm evening. The groups of children are sitting about having a laugh, skateboarding, not doing any burglary.
My friends with whom I drink decent beer in pleasant pubs are all
intelligent, well-mannered people, as are the other patrons and staff. Some of them even have different accents and incomes, come from different countries or backgrounds and have different points of view.
At the weekends I go cycling in nice woodland, on nice hills, sometimes even on mountains. My riding buddies are invariably fun to spend time with. The other people in the woods, hills and mountains are also out there to enjoy themselves and we are happy to exchange pleasantries.
When I fall off my bicycle and hurt myself, there’s an amazing FREE service which takes care of me and patches me up.
I’m not even the most naturally buoyant, cheery kind of person, I just don’t understand where all this negativity and pessimism comes from. Let’s have a happy Friday thread about how It’s Not All That Bad.
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This.
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