What's Better?

Do you see things as they are and say "why?" Or do you see things as they could be and say "why not?"

I have what I call EOS - Eternal Optimist Syndrome. Sometimes I wonder if it is more of a curse than anything else. (Gee Peter, feeling jaded?) Well, since you asked...

No, I don't think it is a bad thing - except for when I see so many good things and so much potential in another person, yet they can't see it in themselves. That is the part that is frustrating. Makes me crazy. I wish there was a way to change - both myself and the other person. But what would that really accomplish?

Instead I go on, tied in to the capitulations, a battered soul reaching out to a wounded heart. Nothing ever quite makes it right. Nothing ever gets through.

Or does it?