a break from my typical rant

I am an optimistic person. I realize that anyone reading my blog probably thinks I am CRAZY but in reality I am generally one of the happier people walking around. I don't worry about what's going to happen. I don't freak out if people don't do what I want. I let life happen to me. I have extreme faith that everything happens for a reason and that the things that are happening in my life right now are happening exactly how they are supposed to. I blame this (a) on my religion and (b) on my hope that I have learned from those days when everything seems like it's going wrong but a week or month or year later I realize that a bad test grade or a break-up or a lost friendship was supposed to happen and that my world is IN FACT not over. This week has been an interesting week but I know that I have experienced difficulties far worse than any of this and so it's all going to be okay.