This really spoke to me today. I am both that overly positive person who tends to view life very positively AND the one who is followed around by a raincloud. Not on purpose, of course. My life has been a series of events that most people wouldn't want to encounter. Heck I would have liked to not encounter them. And yet, here I am, having to do so. :D

I tell my kids that it's okay to get upset about things in life, but it's not worth putting energy into things you cannot change. So we practice going through what they can and cannot change. I think years of doing that with them helped train me, maybe? Maybe I trained myself long before that.

*Notice I said mostly positive above. I'm good at wallowing sometimes too ;-)