Thank you for sharing your perspective. Hope or “looking on the bright side” have positive effects for daily living. Personally, I find that being positive in the immediate moment of living keeps me balanced. I have a more difficult time about being positive for events that are projected to occur in the midterm—political developments, worsening climate events, societal cohesion. But I can also see myself being positive on a day-to-day basis even in a totally disappointing future. It’s about survival until the future opens itself to the compatibility of desire and sustainable living.