Some people might categorize me as a skeptic. Maybe I am but I am in agreement with good old Benjamin Franklin who reputedly said,  “Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.”  This philosophy was probably a result of inventing the bifocals.

My personal history has shown that every time I get my hopes up they are soundly dashed to the ground in disappointment. I often refer to myself as an optimistic pessimist; I know for sure things are going to go wrong. And, I am rarely disappointed in that aspect of life.

 

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