That’s men: Bitter or happily pessimistic? Take your pick
I work on the assumption that every day contains concealed trapdoors for me to fall through
Sometimes negativity is telling us about something we need to address and we would do better to listen to it than to push it away.
I knew two men who cultivated negativity in completely different ways. One was bitter. He dwelt on his own negativity and kept it burning away like a man keeping his pipe going. People tended to avoid him, though when he dropped his negativity he was quite an engaging individual, so much so that he seemed like somebody else.