Optimistic thinking is leading people to set up businesses that have no realistic prospect of financial success, shows new research which may help explain why only fifty per cent of businesses in the UK survive their first five years. (1)

All life ends up in death.

The most optimistic ones will experience the ultimate sorrow. And die.

Only the most pessimistic ones will live longer.

Only to see that they were never alive in the first place.

Be optimistic. For the Sun is dead.

And the brightest moon is lighting your path…

Down to the depths of the great sea.