I'm optimistic about my own life, something that I haven't really been for a long time. I see things around me starting to turn around, like the other posters have said, and I feel like I have worked to get myself into a position to be part of the change and that really makes me feel optimistic. When I used to be a
'disaffected liberal' I was a pessimist; everything was going wrong and it ate away at me. Now that I'm a networked and connected radical, the world is going more my way.