"Cynicism is not smarter, it's only safer." - Jewel Kilcher

"A coward dies a thousand deaths, but a hero dies but once." - William Shakespeare

(I had to pull both quotes since Jewel and Shakespeare are equally brilliant)

• If you have bloodshot eyes with bags under them and lines on your face because you've believed in dreams that never came true...and you still believe, this website is for you.
• If you've had your heart torn out and smashed into a million pieces, then put the pieces back together again only to have it torn out and smashed again...and you're ready to go through it all yet again, this website is for you.
• If you believe in true love and have had the cynical institutions of our society get in the way time and time again causing you great frustration and heartache...but you won't surrender, this website is for you.
• If you believe in a supreme, benevolent being who created this world to be a peaceful, joyous place instead of the violent, apathetic and chaotic world that is described in all the books that this supreme being has allegedly written and you're afraid to express that point of view because of a cynical, dogmatic faith you were raised to believe in causes you to feel guilty...but you still do, this website is for you.
• If you believe that we as a people are capable of more, capable of bigger and better things despite everything that history teaches us, that we can one day have equal rights for all people and health care and education and no more hunger...and you don't feel stupid saying it, this website is for you.
• If you believe that the cynics of the world are not permanently lost, that they're just wandering and waiting for someone to bring them back to a brighter path...and you're willing to try and convert the unconvertible, this website is for you.
• If you have gone out to the bars and had a few drinks while chatting with a girl who is way out of your league and then you bought her some drinks hoping that after enough drinks you would look a lot better in her eyes but she still went home with the good-looking guy with that nice body, leaving you all alone...and you're going to try again, this website is for you.
• If you are one of the people who wears the scars of optimism with pride, who takes the punches, who leads with their chin and wears their heart on their sleeve and marches head on into the oncoming traffic that is the cynics of the world, a group that far outnumbers you...and you don't feel like a sucker, this website is for you.
• If you have read all this bullshit and had made it to this point...and you're still reading, you are an Optimist, and this website is for you.

Enjoy!

Sincerely,

The Cynical Optimist