It feels right to be a cynic. It feels like we're rational and smart and funny and above it all. Especially in times like ours, being negative sometimes feels like the only rational response. To be positive can come across as an uneducated trait. A shutting of your eyes to the reality we live with. And at times it can be the cowardly choice to lean on a false positivity because the news is too troubling or "it doesn't really affect me." We have to face the world as it is. 

But I'm convinced that more often than not we go too far in the opposite direction.