A somewhat upbeat post encouraging you to be positive about the future, for these seemingly dismal times — 1. The Past Was Pretty Bad, and Possibly Worse “Nothing happened in [the 1950s]”, a young friend of Billy Joel asserted. This young friend of Billy also complained that everything seemed awful growing up in the 1960s and the 1970s. In response, Billy wrote the hit song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, in which he listed down 118 significant…