I decided, just now, to throw caution to the wind. How wonderful would it be to be optimistic without that adverbial modifier holding it back? Cautiously optimistic. How about nervously happy? Worriedly content?
We modify our language and we modify our thought. Today I am going to be optimistic. If I choose to modify it, I'm not going to use the prescribed modifier cautiously. Today I'll be stridently optimistic. Hopefully optimistic. Confidently optimistic.
Save cautiously for tightrope walking and brain surgery.
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