Before You Became a Memory
I asked.
“Being pessimistic is entirely different from accepting reality, Mia. Pessimistic people, like you, focus entirely on the negative no matter how beautiful life is. On the other hand, accepting reality, like me, means acknowledging that no matter how good or happy life gets, everything has a strict expiration date. So, until that limit is reached, you choose to be happy. You learn to appreciate what you have. You love what is in front of you because you never truly know when it will be your last moment together. It could be tomorrow, it could be later tonight, or it could be right now.”