"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
So on the one hand you think: we're doomed! On the other hand you think: things will get better!
The big picture sucks. Everything for me is just peachy keen...
Nothing lasts... love is forever...
I might drop dead at any moment... Maybe I will be the one who lives forever... (or at least long enough to realize all my hopes and dreams)!
Maybe... Maybe not...