Some moments of optimism come easy, some comes only with a rare kind of courage...
Today I read Oliver Sachs New York Times opinion piece about learning he has terminal cancer and what he's decided his life needs to be about because of it.
He writes of feeling intensely alive and his hope to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross got a good deal right in her Five Stages of Grief but Sachs shows that another kind of person can find optimism where others may well get stuck on mere acceptance.
Acceptance is a kind of pessimism...
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