For a long time I thought that Pessimism was my Optimism. I was never disappointed. But then a hitch: what could I do with results that were even worse than I had expected? How could I accept a human response that was far darker than I had anticipated?

Perhaps you can relate. There’s nothing like close quarters or a financial transaction or a life-or-death emergency to bring out the demons in those around you. It’s like standing on that glass floor and realizing you’re afraid of heights; you need a crisis to bring it out.

And when you love someone, or like someone, or at least sense a goodness in someone, and they let you down or take advantage or at least behave counter-productively in that crisis, it can be a stake through your heart. It can be defining. It can be the end of something you’d imagined would be infinite.

I gave up the saccharrine image of the glass being half-full to embrace the bittersweet safety of a beverage in decline. I was prepared for the worse, but not the worst. So maybe the vessel is really too small and my “half-empty” is actually drops in a bucket.

Bottom Line: People = Shit, and they can always sink lower than you would expect.

FYPB!

P.S. D-Bot and I are celebrating our 4 year anniversary today. This is not about him. As I mention below – when he pisses me off he gets a song, not a blog…