This morning at work someone was setting up the auditorium for a three day meeting. The auditorium is next to my room. I was feeling very down this morning, not because of having to be at work. But because of some personal things going on - my friend's wife not feeling well and having a doctor's appointment from a blood test I took that was not great.

Well, that guy who was working in the auditorium came in to my room asking me how I'm doing. He's a boisterous kind of guy, very loud and very positive. He's very friendly, but can get on my nerves as he can be a bit bossy. Anyways he was yelling up at me that life is great and other things like that. I just wasn't feeling that way. I'm a reserved kind of guy and tend to be pessimistic. He didn't know what was going on in my head.

Later on I apologized to him about how I was. I didn't go into details with him on what's going on with me, but I told him that I felt down because of what's going on. He said that I was fine, no worries. Then he said that we don't have control in our lives so we shouldn't feel so down. I agree with him but I've heard that so many times.

I don't know how people like him and others like him do it? Being so up and positive, that nothing bad ever phases them. They may have it worse than I do, but they keep that high positive up. How do they do it? I just can't.