I'm not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.

So I'm listening to this Podcast for the first time, expecting it to be funny based on what I know about the host, and instead I got hit with some hard truths about life right off the bat. The host is talking to the first guest, Sage Francis, about how they were both similarly depressed and how each one was able to work their way out of it. They as the second guess about her life and she says that her life is awesome at the moment and then hit me with one of the realest quotes I've ever heard. "Happiness is the ability to feel optimistic about your future." Now, that may not hold true to everyone, but I feel like it definitely holds true to me. Back when I thought I had everything going on for me, when bad shit would happen, it sucked, but in the end if it didn't affect my future than it didn't hold much weight with me. I was so carefree because I was optimistic about where I was going in life. Once that all went away, suddenly even the smallest thing would bring me down because I saw it as one more roadblock on my way to a better future. I don't know. I just had to stop and ponder about that quote for a bit and write this down somewhere so that I wouldn't forget it. I didn't want to post it to Facebook because I don't want people to think I'm being emo or trying to post stupid quotes that I hate when people do. So I don't know. That's it.