Great piece Keri. You can see from my highlights how much resonated. You and I each hate labels, so I won't quibble with the term pessimist as the opposite of toxic positivity--you and I each know what you meant. The most profound thing you said was your rejection of the absolute BS of the law of attraction, which I will not capitalize as it is no law, at best it's a sometimes true generalization. What really gets my goat about its dogmatic believers is when they preserve it by saying well if you attracted bad energy you must have been vibrating it yourself. Oy vey, it's a bad as the rationalization of original sin.