It is easy to be an optimist when everything is fine, but at any given point of time, only a few people and only for a limited time, can feel that everything is really alright with them.

If we don't face the usual financial problems, we have psychological problems, social problems, family problems, health problems, etc. Nobody is happy and nobody believes that things can be better in the future, based on the way our world functions.

So, optimism is considered as being an illusive attitude one has when analyzing one's life and making plans for the future.

We all more or less know the basic conditions we require to be happy. We need love, power, pleasure, recognition of our value as human beings, spiritual development, peace, balance, family, friends and everything else favourable as well.

However, how does everyone in our planet survive?

Do you feel you are near the indispensable conditions for your happiness in your life?

The truth is that the majority of the population of our planet lives in a lot of suffering and without any hope of relief.

We cannot talk about happiness and optimism in a planet where so many people starve, fight, kill, sell their souls and die without reason. We have to be realistic.

Happiness is an impossible dream and optimism, only a fairy tale.

How, then, can the human being have the indispensable courage to work and build a world with the necessary conditions for happiness in the population's heart, without any optimism?

On the other hand, how can one be optimistic if one has to face so many problems and surpass so many obstacles in order to finally be happy, if at all this will ever happen?

Without optimism, there is no courage. Optimism, positivity and faith are indispensable for the development of courage in the person's psyche. If one doesn't believe one is going to overcome his problems and live happily after solving them, one cannot have the courage to take the minimal effort required to start facing the infinite problems of life and the world .

Optimism has to come first. Even when there are no conditions for the existence of happiness and there is no hope of relief, optimism will give courage to the survivors. Otherwise, there is no other solution in life.

Therefore, optimism is not an elusive belief. It is our unique power in the hopeless desert we live in. Only if we manage to cultivate optimism in our conscience, even though the reality is completely discouraging, will we acquire the courage required to be able to work hard and prepare the conditions of life for all of us to be happy.

Now, how can someone cultivate optimism in the mind and heart, even though our present life is terrible and we can logically predict that the future will be even worse?

Shall one be eluded by fantasies of success and happiness in hell?

This is a philosophical matter. We already concluded that optimism is not an illusion or fantasy, but is the energy that gives us courage to live, work and continue doing everything we have to.

Optimism in hell is a heroic attitude, only because it brings us the courage we need to build a new world, where happiness will be possible and real.