Firstly, HN has no responsibility for the well-being of said poster or his* parents. If his thought pattern was not disorganized and he posted this pique query

Firstly, HN has no responsibility for the well-being of said poster or his* parents. If his thought pattern was not disorganized and he posted this pique query to HN on a WTF-basis, then fine. Caveat emptor. Secondly, optimism and fact are orthogonal. Practices shown empirically to be salutary are considered to be "medicine", i.e. something that actually "works". Why am I writing this on HN as a rebuttal? Finally, I may as well be older than your parents. Go to bed! * with apologies to "they"