Welcome!
Before I get ahead of myself, thanks for reading this post. Every person that reads makes me happier about writing so, please, tell your friends about Hopeless Optimism. The more, the merrier.
With that, I should probably explain why I chose the name "Hopeless Optimism" and what I plan to do with this blog. Like many people, I consider myself an optimist. As Cynthia Nelms once said, "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." I don't entirely agree with that idea but I've found that people like a happy person and, to be honest, I cant't pull off being sad (I usually come off as a cynic). So I do my best to remain happy. I've decided, so to speak, to be happy. However, we all know that you can't be happy all the time.
I certainly can't label myself as hopeless or nihilistic but I'll be the first to admit that I'm a bit mediocre. Most people specialize at one or two things, love that thing or two, and are good at what they love but I don't really have a specialty. At times, it seems like there are few things that I don't like and, because of my inability to limit what I like, I want to be good at just about everything. What has ended up happening so far is that I perform tolerably or, more accurately, in a rather mediocre way at almost everything I try. I have my feet in the water all over the place but I just can't seem to find something to call my own. Again, let's try to stay optimistic. Let's just call it a temporary misappropriation of skill.
On to purpose. I'm not a big fan of misappropriation or the inability to find self-actualization (that's Maslow's hierarchy, boys and girls), so I've created this blog as a practice space. I wrote in my bio that this is a place for my "childish scribbles" and that I'm trying to write things "worth reading." That's what I intend for Hopeless Optimism to be: a place for word doodles. Please check out my doodles and let me know what you like and what you don't. If you can bear with me, who knows? I may get a bit better. We can only hope.
More to come,
Spencer D. Morris
