Food for thought. . .

We all know that one person who, when we ask how they're doing, they reply, sarcastically, "Living the dream."

f they haven't slept well, they may instead substitute the equally ironic response, "Same shit, different day."

What does it take to get a person to that point. And what would it take to bring them back from the pessimistic reply brink? 

Perhaps fruit basket deliveries for a year and a zoo volunteer gig bottle-feeding orphaned pandas and koalas.