Thread drift!:0)

Back to the subject of the thread. I can't agree that our wxperiences are what forms our outlook. I had an uncomfortable childhood and quite a lot of things which could be seen as rather disastrous since then but Kendall calls me Pollyana bexause I tend toward trying to find the positive in every situation. That's not something I am aware that I'm doing, it just comes naturally. I like to think that I am aware of the problems that might arise but choose not to dwell on them to the exclusion of all else. Life's too bloody short for that.

Maybe it had to do with the fact that my mother was one of the worst pessimists imaginable. When being taken on an all expenses paid holiday by a friend she complained that she would have to find spending money!