Guard your thoughts

In our minds, we always seem to see more of the bad than the good. How can one do this? “We hope vaguely but dread precisely,” says Paul Valéry. As much as I hate to say it, he is right. It is so much easier to remember the bad than the good. Think back, we all have the one person who bugged us, and we can remember many of the things he/she did against us, but we would be hard pressed to remember one thing they did for us, even if they did many things. This is why there is pessimism; some just won’t remember the good. Some only know the bad.