I rolled a dice to decide which disposition to adopt for today and the dice said: Optimistic

So I tried.

1. I watched a grandfather playing with his grandchild on the bus and I wondered how my grandfather would be like should he still be alive. I am glad for the advance in science and our healthcare standards which will actually allow most of us to watch our grandchildren grow up should we decide to have kids.

Unfortunately, healthcare is going to be expensive and children quite hard to afford.

I tried.

2. As we continued with our nation building efforts, we have groups of people, who were gathered through unknown (probably government) channels, by unknown (probably political) beings, to set new records for strange feats. I thought I saw on the news that hundreds of people gathered to set a new record for the longest queue of people barbecuing together. I see people of all ethnic, gender and age groups coming together just to participate in this event and I guess for a while, they forgot their differences.

They also forgot that barbecued food are carcinogenic.

Again, I tried.

3. With our efficient police force, our streets are safe enough for most of us to walk about at night. Girls can walk alone at night, minimally dressed not to be arrested and still be safe from physical harrassment.

Most of the guys will just have to keep their hands in their pockets as they undress the girls in their minds.

And I tried, really.

I guess when I told ^dante the other day that the words: optimism and pessimism mean nothing to me, I was serious. But hell, a dialogue between a hedonist and a nihilist can be fun.

I think it is easier to get a cat to purr into my phone than to be optimistic.