{"id":25,"date":"2013-01-30T17:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stair2stop.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2013-02-18T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:50:28","slug":"perils-of-the-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stair2stop.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"perils of the positive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not an optimist but don’t like to think of myself as a pessimist either because pessimist = bad. So over the course of time, I’ve settled on “realist.”<\/p>\n

You may be thinking, “Why not be an optimist?” Well, for starters, I’m not. It would be like saying, “Why not be a man?”<\/p>\n

Also optimists annoy me and I don’t want to annoy myself anymore than I do right now. The casual optimist is fine. The friend who cheers me up, for example, is more than welcome in my life. It is the others….<\/p>\n

Several years ago I worked with someone who managed to insert “super-awesome” into emails, conversations with ease. I developed a tic just hearing it. Sometimes I just don’t want to make lemonade, I want to bitch and gripe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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