Dear Laura and team, I am not very active here, but I read daily for 2 years in the forum. I am a mother of two young children and more of an anxious type and have received strength, fortitude and courage from your forum. I owe so much of my own development and newfound strength to you and the members. For me and my children. Thank you from the bottom of my heartI don't know that the lines I put in bold are more and more my own view. And in fact, it seems that this is what the Cs have been saying all along, but encouraging us to gain knowledge, to be aware, etc, so that we are not beaten down by this view, and may possibly utilize that knowledge to "surf the wave" so to say.
At this point, I think I would rather be pessimistic and be surprised, that to be optimistic and be disappointed.