Garbled.

You have to be very careful what you hope for. 

You have to be even more careful to not hope for certain things. 

You sit down, and make a list of all the things that you have been secretly hoping for and haven't been admitting to yourself. Then you take that list and burn it. 

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If something sounds like it's absolutely horrible and you laugh it off because it's never going to happen to you, don't. The strange turns that your life can take have more potential than you give them credit for.

Realism leans towards pessimism because no one likes being caught off guard. It's easier to pretend that you are going to fail miserably and then you can rejoice silently when you scrape through.

Realism is when you use a lot of maybes, because come on now, in reality none of us have a clue.

And those of us who have a clue, run with the clues and then sulk in our soups because we feel short-changed.