I thought this was very interesting and a good reason to be optimistic and a realist at the same time🤣 Help Out of Nowhere King David prayed with these words: “I lift my eyes to the mountains, from whence will come my help?” The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of righteous memory, once explained: The words “from whence” can also be translated as “from nothingness”—meaning that there is nothing in existence that could possibly help. But then, David continues, “My help is from G‑d, maker of heaven and earth.” Beyond existence. You see people believe that only fools are optimists. But the opposite is true. Precisely because we understand how desperate the situation really is, how helpless we are and how impossible the challenge, that itself tells us how great a G‑d we have—a G‑d who can lift us high beyond the natural order and transform the most ominous darkness to brilliant good. The greater a realist you are, the greater your joy.