First I wanted to say thank you very much to @berniesanders for his vote and support my most successful post and many others!
To answer:

What's one thing that makes you optimists about the (future) today?

Living and surviving through getting Meningitis!
There is no negative. There is no future. There is only now.
Freedom is not a choice. More so having freedom from choice.
Only a truly clear mind has freedom. This also results in being a total optimists.
To do so one must be totally absolutely without conflict.
(Credit to krishnamurti, berniesanders, razvanelulmarin, & [energy of] everyone & everything)
Namaste