Talking with my dad about optimism the other day, I am thankful I’ve always had the benefit of being disgustingly upbeat :) A girl I’m talking to recently pointed it out as well and it feels great when others acknowledge that you’re a genuinely happy person. You may have lost your job, had to make a hard decision, etc. But you’re not a child dying of AIDS and starving to death in the desert heat out in Africa.

It’s morbid, but humbling. Things could always be much worse than we are. Rather than be sad we’re not as fortunate as some, we should be ecstatic that we are more fortunate than others.

Oh how blissful it would be sometimes to find such small joys anywhere!

Let’s just speed things up and get over Xmas… Here in the Philippines Christmas just means everybody has their hands out asking for more more more…

Kim:)