Thank you to people who in both past and present have helped me be an optimist

I grade four my teacher explained to us what optimists, pessimists, and realists are. She used me as te example of an optimist, and the class unanimously agreed and I felt bad accepting what Ifeel is a great compliment. After all the ways I was annoying an dumb and would embarrass myself and say thoughtless things and accidentally hurt people, honestly throughout life I feel everyone else were the positive ones. Tht they were so much more forgiving of me than I deserve, and maybe it is then who made me the optimist, the ones who made me see the best in everyone else because they first gave that to me, despite perhaps a natural inclination towards despair.

I like putting up a fight, but I will be temped to distance myself from someone if they love me, cutting myself off when I feel inadequate. It is something hard to fight, it is the not positive part of me that the positive part fights. The optimist those people nurtured. (Including the realists).

Someday hopefully I can say this in person, but for now in case one of those many friends and even not close peers and mentors and others who chose to see the good in me and by example helped teach me to be more positive and forgiving, thank you from the bottom of my heart.