Optimism

Coming soon :D

First draft for now: counterfactual-including optimism e.g. "I see there are birds flying in the sky today ^-^ but even if there were no birds, today would had still been AWESOME ;P" and counterfactual-excluding optimism e.g. "I see there are birds flying in the sky today ^-^" while implying that, if there were no birds flying in the sky, it wouldn't had been so amazing (the degree of negativity may vary, from a "still amazing but not as much" to "totally depressing scenario"). I think I may focus more on the counterfactual-including optimism here, but I'll probably explore both lol. Hmm... another distinction may be "necessary counterfactual-excluding optimism" vs "contingent counterfactual-excluding optimism". The former means that a person, no matter what happens, always tries to see the "good" in a situation, while however implying that if the scenario had been different, it wouldn't had been as good e.g. if someone doesn't have as much money as the have, they may say something like "I'm so grateful that I'm not filthy rich... life would start feeling meaningless, and there are so many negative sides of being rich". That person may or may not actually believe it. A person who engages in "necessary counterfactual-excluding optimism" would say something like that while poor, whereas if that same person was rich (or became rich afterwards), they would had been grateful for being rich and said that being poor is a bad thing. Contingent counterfactual excluding optimism means that by chance, it simply happened that a situation that a person likes manifested in their lives.