Optimism

My Dad practiced optimism.  He never said a lot about such an attitude; however, he always saw the good in whatever was happening.  When he was elderly, living within dementia in a Nursing Home, he was fond of saying that with his present mental ability he could really enjoy an Easter egg hunt.  He would say that he could hide the eggs in the evening, go to sleep and in the morning he wouldn't remember where he had hidden them so he could really hunt for the Easter eggs.  He would laugh as he told this story, and he told it frequently because he couldn't remember that he had already told it.  Optimism is a good trait and I hope that we have it all of our life; not just in our elder years.  Optimism helps when we are working together on projects or on a team.  The lack of optimism makes us critical of everyone else and their ideas because we'll think that my ideas are the "right way" to do things and everyone ought to understand and agree.