Attitude Adjustment Required

I’m a pessimist. Sort of.

I have this idea if I anticipate the absolutely worst possible outcomes in any situation, none of them will come to pass. So basically I’m an optimist who’s hypervigilant about the negative.

I am very annoying to live with.

One practical upshot of this is I tend to be negative about writing, most of the time. I talk in terms of what I “have” to do, or what I “should” do. (My mother always told me to banish all the “shoulds” from my life.) And this is a shame, ...