Optimistic Character

You come into English and find out you will be working on a writing prompt. Writing is hard for you and you don’t really like to do it. You want to go to College..so you decide that it might be good to get some practice…

You told your parents that you wanted to go camping this weekend and they said they would take you. Something came up and they had to cancel the trip. They said they would still take you to do something fun..but you get mad and yell. You can’t believe you aren’t going to get to go camping!

You made plans with your friends to go to the movies on Friday night. You really want to see this new movie that just came out! You are getting ready when your friends call and say they would rather hang out at someone’s house and watch a movie. They still want to go see the movie tomorrow night. You hang up on them. You can’t believe they are cancelling on you!

Saying that you are not going to even try something you can do because it’s “too hard”!

Figuring out a problem yourself rather than asking your parents for the answer.

Getting someone to tell you an answer when you have not even looked for it yourself!

"If you can't change it, change the way you look at it."

It is important to continue negative thoughts when negative things happen.