You are an optimistic person and I understand that optimism is very good for your health. Life is easier when you are optimistic!
Well... a good thing it's over! It was heart surgery, done through the femoral vein and it was at one point very painful. Through some wires that went to the heart, electrical impulses were transmitted that made me think I felt what death row inmates on the electric chair felt. The doctor warned me it would be painful but not dangerous but I was afraid my chest would explode!
Now I'm home and have to be quiet, mostly in bed, for a week.
Ok, that really sounds scary and awfully painful. I am glad you are already at home and I am sure Magda will take good care of you! I wish that the recovery will be super fast!
I am not sure I am as optimistic as I sound. But yes, I think so too, it is good for the health and makes things less heavy. I think that I am less or more optimistic in certain themes, while I can be less or more pessimistic in others (maybe it depends on how well informed I am as you say? It surely depends on many things).
I have noticed that when I think of how small and insignificant I am and how I can't change anything big in the world, which is a pessimistic but absolutely realistic thought, then I feel more calm, and maybe then I seem too optimistic. Hats off if it makes any sense @bluemoon!
It makes all the sense in the world! In the sense that we can't just stay in a feeling now when everything is changing so fast! If you're a normal human being there's no way that optimism and pessimism can't replace each other. We can't change the world just by focusing on the good and ignoring the bad. A philosopher of yours, of course, from antiquity, seemed to say that the world exists only in our imagination. My mind refused to understand that, or I understood that there was an infinity of worlds, according to each man's perception... Plato? I learned that decades ago, I don't remember, no disrespect.
Something strange is happening to me... I don't like googling information I knew and have forgotten or am no longer sure of. I like to err more than I like to search. A little crazy, isn't it?
Thank you for your good wishes, I hope at least for a recovery, even if it will not be very fast!