The Cozy, Introverted Therapist

We have a choice

To find optimism

Or to find pessimism.

What we find is what we keep.

We cannot choose our traumas,

The experiences that lean us

Toward the warmth of light

Or toward the black hole of dark.

We can choose to acknowledge

That we have a tangible choice

In how we respond to pain,

Whether to allow it to consume

Or to let it teach us resilience.

The only difference

Between pessimism and optimism

Is a choice.

If you find an opportunity

To lean into hope,

Take it.

Keep it.

Finders, keepers.