It saddens me moderately that cynicism is often the default; people sometimes think I'm being (rudely) sarcastic when I'm just being straightforwardly nice. I

It saddens me moderately that cynicism is often the default; people sometimes think I'm being (rudely) sarcastic when I'm just being straightforwardly nice. I feel like cynicism/pessimism gets weird praise, too. The anthropologist Wade Davis considers it an indulgence and I wholeheartedly agree. /tangent