I approach most situations with the technique, experience, and intuition of a 5 year old. This has caused some difficulties in my adult life and it wasn't a joy ride when I was 5, either.
I start out by being impatient - I want things to be all fixed up immediately. I want problems solved, conundrums plumbed, and mysteries demystified. I want to know the future. I want to control the future. In my experience controlling outcomes is a rarity. Outcomes come out sometime down the road, in a time and place of their choosing. I can force and strain and grunt all I want and still not change the natural ebb and flow of things, the vagaries, the vicissitudes, and any other words that start with a V that I'm overlooking.
I also have a tendency to make do. I want to look on the bright side of things. Being positive and optimistic is a wonderful coping technique that I overdo. I'm the guy sitting there with my hair on fire and my ass beginning to smolder, thinking: "Hey, this isn't so bad." Sometimes I need to be shaken and stirred.
Somewhere in between.
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