I Kant You Can We Do

Anyone can be an optimist; dare to be cynical.

Whoops, the happiness epidemic merchants would have us saying that the other way around.

They imply that cynicism is easy. Take the virtuous path they say, the hard road, the one less travelled. That of the optimist.

Well I say, we don’t have dozens of emotions and then say we should only practice one of them, do we?

Hang on, people do say that. Be happy. It’s good to be happy. Ignore those other feelings. Shut ’em down brother.

The happiness epidemic merchants – they are all loopy.

So, to be clear, I can be both cynical and optimistic; sometimes both in the same sentence. 

And neither one requires more or less work. Neither one makes life better than the other.

But one without the other; well that’s a lonely elephant on a see-saw.