Finding Your Way Out Of The Cage Of Pessimism

"In the classic Victorian tragedy by Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, a young peasant girl named Tess Durbyfield discovers she is of aristocratic lineage. But instead of a dream life, this revelation leads to one disappointment after another. In a heartbreaking scene, she is asked if the stars are like our world. She replies, 'They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard tree. Most of them splendid and sound—a few blighted.' When asked which kind of world we live on, she answers without hesitation: 'A blighted one.'