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A friend introduced me to the concept of toxic optimism.
Oh bugger, and I was thinking optimism was altogether a good thing.
It's raining, raining hard- but look at me, I'm Gene Kelly! Nothing wrong with that, is there? Surely not....
Toxic optimism is when you deny someone else's pain and suffering and tell them to "get over it" and "buck up" and all that shit.
I hope I don't do that.
Oh bugger, and I was thinking optimism was altogether a good thing.
It's raining, raining hard- but look at me, I'm Gene Kelly! Nothing wrong with that, is there? Surely not....
Toxic optimism is when you deny someone else's pain and suffering and tell them to "get over it" and "buck up" and all that shit.
I hope I don't do that.
