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I think the concept is that you can affect your happiness by your outlook on life and the circumstances you face. The pessimist and the optimist are both right about life. They focus on the the bad or the good respectively so that their lives are either good or bad depending on what they choose to focus on.
I think this is a basic Biblical principal of contentment. They also mentioned a kind of complainer that is afraid to be truly happy, because his fear is that as soon as he admits things are really good, then something horrible will inevitably happen. So he would rather live with things being quite good and complain than recognize that he’s happy.
I think this is somewhat true of me. I do think I feel like if things are too good, then of course it can’t last. Something bad must happen eventually. How much better I would be if I would choose to be content and happy with life as it is, and deal with the problems as they come.
So… take the test, comment and tell me your score…
Mine was 27…
my score was 9..ooops…not very good is it!
oh well…
My score was 26… …interesting. I could relate to your sentiments.
My score was a 32. I do agree that this is very much a principle of Biblical contentment.
Got a 29… Didn’t realize I was so happy! ;) j/k