Happiness Isn’t My Factory Setting

We’ve turned suffering from a challenge that can help us grow into something we want to claim for validation.

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I never thought I was a particularly optimistic person. I always thought I gravitated toward the dark side. I felt that way all the way up until I was in a relationship with a real pessimist. Compared to him, I was perky as f*ck.

I began to re-evaluate if what I had always believed about myself was true. If I wasn’t a …