I don’t know if I am a natural optimist or not. What I do know is I am not a born pessimist, and sometimes that’s the same as being an optimist. There have been some pretty stressful things happening in the lives of people I care about recently, and to help make it through, I have found myself looking for the good, even in the midst of the bad and the hard. Because being able to do that has been one of the keys to surviving the really awful.  What does that look like? Well, here are three situations difficult situations my family has been dealing with lately and what…