If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.