Bitter or Sweet?

There comes a time in everyone's life where you have to choose how you're going to act. Are you going to be an optimist, or a pessimist? 

I yo-yo back and forth between both faster than Oprah yo-yos between dress sizes. Some days I'm upbeat and positive that I'll be just fine, and others I'm certain that nothing good will ever happen to me.

What's healthier, though? Having rose-colored expectations, or having no expectations at all?

I know how dangerous it is to get your hopes up too high and then have everything fall through - get a metaphorical cream pie to the face.

"Oh everything is going to be so perfect and I'm going to get everything I want out of life, I'm going to have it all and be the happiest person in the world...."

Life says "nope".

But some people argue that going from day-to-day with a "glass half empty" mentality isn't any better. It turns you into a grump. A bitter grump, and there's no worse kind. 

Is there a difference between being negative and being realistic?

I think instead of living my life as an optimist or a pessimist, I'm going to hope for the best, and plan for the worst. Live each day as a little of both, at the same time.

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You have a choice to be bitter or to be sweet. I'm just a bittersweet kinda gal.