some thoughts on optimism. in my mind optimism is the most rational and the most natural thing -- because pessimism suspends agency, while optimism restores and sustains it
it isn't just a nice feeling that's decorative; it's operational. the quiet engine that turns intention into motion, and motion into endurance. it isn't rooted in wishful thinking but in functionality: when healthy, humans are naturally inclined toward optimism. because life's baseline is forward motion. life, by definition, resists entropy. agency can choose to align with that current
today i read someone say that hope is the ultimate expression of agency. i loved that. because we can think that hope is will, distilled: the mind's refusal to surrender to entropy. in that sense, hope is agency made emotional, bridging cognition and vitality