I should be so lucky...

In a bid to make some extra cash I have signed up to this governmental survey website thing, 5000 points gets you £50. I'm currently on 2350 which has taken me 12 months to get here. My mother always did say there was no such thing as quick cash...

Anyway, seeing as I am half way there I thought I might as well carry on, it normally involves some level of amusement and random clicking...there never is a theme either, it normally starts off with a political questions ie "If an election was held tomorrow who would you vote for?" and then ends with "Did you watch last nights episode of Masterchef?"  (clearly there is a correlation that I am missing). I digress. So I'm filling out this survey and this question appears...

Which one of these do you feel POSITIVE or OPTIMISTIC about in your life at present?

1. Your health
2. Your relationship with your family
3. Your relationship with your friends
4. Your love life
5. Your job
6. Your neighbourhood
7. Your financial situation
8. The economy
9. The government
10. The world
11. All of the above
12. None of the above.

Lets go through these shall we?

1. At this rate I am on course for lung/ throat/ tongue cancer...its not good.
2. My dad had an affair with the maid and now they live together...enough said.
3. I have a few good friends and not a lot of anything else. Times have changed, everyone is going in different directions - backwards in my case.
4. What love life? Unless you count going out with a sociopath for 16 months a type of life...
5. Hate.My.Job. - Looking for a new one.
6. Thank god. I love my new neighbourhood, having been made homeless due to point 4 above.
7. Dire. Also see points 4 and 5 above - and why I'm doing survey to begin with!
8. Ask Mervyn.
9. Ask your cabbie - he always has an opinion.
10. As I say, Boston, Texas, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Swindon...the list goes on. Not to mention global warming and never ending winters ( how does that work?), horse meat in beef burgers...whatever next.
11. HAH. I wish. No really I do.
12. I even lose at being negative about everything. Bah humbug.

So after filling in the survey and with a few technical hitches along the way I sat here at my desk (at my job, which I hate) and pondered.
 
I guess I just want to know what would make me a number 11 person "I feel POSITIVE and OPTIMISTIC about all of the above". Even maybe they could have a number 13 person - "I feel POSITIVE and OPTIMISTIC about half of the above?"

What makes me so different to those other people who are happy with half the list? Is it luck? Timing? Karma? Fate? Permanent???!!!!

Or maybe I should just stop smoking, talk to my dad, make some new friends and re connect with the old ones, find a man, get a new job, make more money, solve the economic crisis, become Prime Minister, and wish for world peace. Now there's a thought!

Answers on a postcard please.