Optimism Does Not Mean Accepting the Status Quo

It takes a lot of positivity to believe things can change.

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I met Eve when I was living in a hippy community in Germany. She was kind and funny, and incredibly optimistic. She told me about her semester abroad in Russia, where she had been hosted by an unfriendly woman with a dozen cats, who wouldn’t allow her to take showers and would berate…