Pessimism to Optimism: A Sudden Shift

Optimistic Goose

I'm not sure how permanent this is for me, but for the last 10 days, minus one of them, to be exact, I've realized that my thinking has shifted from thinking about how much longer it will be until my depression hits bottom, to instead, how long it will be until my happiness plateaus. Somehow, after being a hardcore pessimist for the last 18 years, I've suddenly realized that I am currently an optimist.

I think what got me here were multiple, ongoing changes in my recent life, big and small, both out of my control and of my own doing, all of which were intended to better my life in my eyes or even a loved one's eyes that I might not even have agreed with at the time of change.