Everything is Awesome

Between a slow computer and a lack of inspiration, I've been having a hard time finding anything that I want to blog about this morning, so I'll just blog about something that's been floating around my head for the last few days: Everything is Awesome.

Everything is Awesome is pretty much THE song from The Lego Movie. Its lyrics are repetitive and ridiculous (listing things such as stepping in mud and having allergies among the list of things that are awesome), but the message, namely that of being extremely optimistic, has some merit. I think that, if we look hard enough, we can find something good, perhaps even "awesome" in just about everything. As I said recently, almost any experience can be a positive one, if you have the right attitude. Perhaps, given an incredibly optimistic attitude, everything can be seen as awesome.

But is it really wise to be THAT optimistic? It's not very realistic to be excited about "rocks, clocks, and socks," and it certainly isn't normal. But who ever said we were trying to be normal? Even if it is insane to think that everything is awesome, it's certainly going to help you be a lot happier than thinking that everything is terrible, which is just as false, if not more so. While I don't really think that everything in existence is so good that it's awesome, I think that there's at least some good in just about everything, and that we'll be a lot happier if we make the effort to see it and appreciate it than if we don't.