Is Your Cup Overflowing?

I am reading Optimism by Helen Keller. It available free at Gutenberg.org. Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing after an illness at age 19 months. When she was seven she met Anne Sullivan who taught her language skills. Keller went on to become an author (she published 12 books) international speaker, and political activist for social justice causes and world peace.

In her work, Optimism, Helen Keller writes, “Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they would be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life,—if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.” P. 9

NOTE: I like being around optimists. I like being around people who, when they get knocked down, bounce back up and keep on keeping on. They have a fire in their belly. Their minds filter out the naysayers, critics, and doomsday thinkers. They are the embodiment of hope. Our world needs more optimists. Our world needs more people bringing the light to the darkness and letting us know that tomorrow will better than today.