Safety Training Meeting

Today we had an all day safety training meeting, which was great but it made me a little afraid. In my stress and coping class I learned that we are born optimistic and we learn to be pessimistic. I believe seminars like this perpetuate this pessimistic form of thinking, even if it is helpful. Personally, I like to think the best of people, whereas I feel that this seminar taught us to be overly cautious about everything. Ultimately, I do believe we need training like this because if we live life optimistic of everything we will probably get into trouble eventually. It makes me sad that we live in a society where being pessimistic is considered to be better and safer than being optimistic.