"An optimist invents the airplane, a pessimist invents the parachute"
— Gladys Beryl
My lesson for the month of June is how different these perspectives are, and how unlikely they are to be intertwined. The assumption that you can balance both is likely to be some combination of arrogance and ignorance - a partnership between wide-eyed dreamer and cold calculator is far more likely than a single clear-eyed brilliant one who can simultaneously communicate with light and darkness.
Given that, it seems the challenge is to find counterpart(s) one can appreciate through difference.
note: I wrote this in 2013, and rediscovered the draft on revisiting this blog for revival