You know that thing you've always wanted to do?"Twenty-one came and went and although the dream was stillthere (floating, less bright but still alive, somewhere behind astack of stress and hidden amidst a sea of overtime hours ina distant corner of his mind) Charlie barely noticed that hisdreamline-deadline had ticked its final tock."Well maybe it isn't too late after all!"You see Charlie believed that he was going to be successful.He believed that he was special and that one day he would riseabove the mass of mediocrity which surrounded him, draggedhim down and slowly drained him of his ambition; and then hewould make a name for himself."The Lazy Optimist tells the story of an everyday man who hadbeen harbouring the embers of potential in his heart for fartoo long. It is a tale of hope and describes how he managedto escape his life of genuine optimism, held back by fear,cunningly disguised as bad luck and resulting in a kind ofdirectionless, busy-laziness...And if Charlie can...