It can be hard for the optimistically inclined among us to hear, but optimistic reactions, ones that people who are grieving might consider irrationally optimistic, can be even tougher to bear than pessimistic reactions. For people in crisis, ill-timed optimism just feels like a meaningless empty platitude, especially for a situation that really might not get better.
-- Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell, There Is No Good Card for This, p. 204-205
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