Optimists shower.

If you have a shower or bath in the morning, you're engaging in your first act of optimism. You're saying, "I want start the day, fresh and clean."

You want to feel good. You have things to do and people to see and acts to complete.

If the world were to end or you were to disintegrate into a pile of garbage, you obviously wouldn't shower.*

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* This entry is adapted from Breakfast with Socrates : an extraordinary (philosophical) journey through your ordinary day Robert Rowland Smith