Resilient optimism is relentless optimism.

It is this hope in the face of utterly exhausting and depressing news of war and famine and global warming, a pandemic. Optimism is not blind. It doesn't just happen. You're not born with it. Optimism is a habit that you have to cultivate; that **we** have to cultivate.

It's a choice.

It's choosing between the reality that is right now and the reality that could be. Because we live in this in-between state, this already-but-not-yet state.