Optimism

I may be considered a bit of a curmudgeon, but I am also am optimist. 

I have to be. 

Though it took me longer than I would have liked, I am a remarkably happy person, having realized me dreams of becoming a teacher and an author despite:

Dying twice.
Being arrested and tried for a crime I did not commit.
Living in my car.
Being robbed at gunpoint.
Sharing a room with a goat. 
Putting myself through college while working fulltime and part-time and part-time all at the same time.
Suffering an anonymous, public and slanderous attack to my reputation and career.

Seriously, how could a guy not be optimistic after a string of catastrophes like that?

Which is why I love this idea: