Optimism or Not

Written By Joe Smolen

This very valid question pesters and pesters logically. The only place to go is optimism. It doesn't matter if you're right about being optimistic. What matters is how your life feels at this moment. Right now, today is all the certainty you have. Right now, today, is where you create most of your own reality. No matter what you are told about rockets, bombs, pistol shots, tsunamis, they are all maybes. Be optimistic you and yours won't be harmed today. You're gonna be right, and safe. Believe it

Joe Smolen

Joe C. Smolen, AKA L.W. Smolen is an Oregon Coast writer of insufficiently exaggerated notoriety. Never having been arrested, he lives with his wife Sherrie and the ghost of their black, Standard Poodle Rico Suave in a really pretty good, Prairie Style house they built themselves. Since the Literary Magazine Fleas on the Dog of Kitchener, Ontario has permanently stopped accepting submissions, in order to read L.W. Smolen’s 2021 short fiction, A Real Guy, you are referred to joecsmolen.com. Some of L.W’s other, subsequent short fictions are archived at Olive Tree Review, Ginosko, Cardinal Sins Journal, Wrath Bearing Tree, Wilderness House and etc. Kirkus reviews once interpreted his work favorably.

https://joecsmolen.com
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