Rose-coloured glasses

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Phrase: Rose-coloured glasses

It would be nice to look at the world through rose-coloured glasses and not have a care in the world.

Waking up and beginning to doomscroll, even before getting out of bed, has become a habit for most of us.

Now I have two things to explain before we make any more progress.

First, when you look at the world through rose-coloured glasses, you maintain a positive attitude and fail to notice the negative things occurring around you.

It may be intentional or not, but it is often considered reckless and unrealistic.

Next, we have doomscrolling.

Well, scrolling through your Twitter or news feed to see how the pandemic is unfolding is doomscrolling.

It’s like watching a horror movie.

You want to look away, but you can’t.

Then when you see it, you wish you had looked away.

There are people in this world who can accept reality and are very good at rolling with the punches.

They tend to take things as they are.

I can’t say they have an easy time adjusting to the ‘new normal,’ but they are doing better than most.

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Then others refuse to see the current situation for what it is.

These are the ones looking through rose-coloured glasses.

They think that the problem is not so bad and perhaps that it’s getting better.

They refuse to face reality and insist that everything is rosy.

Well, everything is not rosy.

The reason things seem normal is that we have adjusted.

If you are wearing rose-coloured glasses, take them off once in a while to reground yourself in reality.

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