#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: What if I don’t need more positivity–just real optimism?
#HighlySensitivePeople #Introverts: What if I don’t need more positivity—just real optimism? For a long time, I thought optimism meant pretending things wouldn’t go wrong. As a highly sensitive, introverted person, that never felt honest—or safe.So I called myself “realistic.” Careful. Prepared. What I didn’t realize then was that I was spending a lot of energy worrying in advance. Optimism finally made sense to me when I stopped trying to convince myself that things would go right. Here’s the shift that changed everything: I didn’t stop worrying by assuming things would go right.I stopped worrying when I trusted I could handle them if they didn’t.That’s when optimism finally made sense to me. That kind of optimism isn’t naïve.It’s grounded.It says: Life may be hard sometimes—and I…
