Life is good. Linking to optimism is crucial, as well as disregard for pain and sadness, the 2 things the world we live in today will try it's hardest to avoid. Learning that negativity is inevitable will produce a priceless awareness that can help tackle problems forever. Neutrality is key and that has been said before. Why strive for a "normal" life when what flows the best is something that can confront with all laws of nature? Don't take that the wrong way, If life is amazing you don't have to be pessimistic, just think about the bad times from the past and be grateful for the full-fledged "live" experience that is often referred to as a "high". When the days and times are bad you have nothing else to look forward to but the 'morrows and the minutes passing ahead of you, and again remember the past that you once experienced in your so-called prime time.
History was taught for a reason. Subconsciously we connect to greatness through the past, it's good to set goals but it can never be expected. We have wants and needs and sometimes it is proper to apply factors of natural instincts that can greatly represent why terms like "human nature" are often excuses for why we do the things we do.
I personally hate history, yet I still find myself reading about the past the most.
