While modern medicine has only recently confirmed that optimism is good for the heart, this wisdom goes back 3000 years. We can’t always choose our circumstances but we can choose our response and a cheerful response is good for the heart (and possibly the soul, but that is not my area of expertise).
There are times, however, when one must react differently and enlighten one’s adversary as to what shady bodily orifice they may shove their proverbial “it.”
Some say that also may be good for the heart.
A conundrum!