John has always been able to see the positive side of everything. Not in an annoying, Candide kind of way, either. He is able, almost always, to legitimately shift his thinking to incorporate whatever circumstance and turn it into good news. For instance: when we were gearing down from our first or second cycle, however many years ago, John was looking at himself in the mirror one morning, and he said, "Okay, so that kind of sucked. The nice thing, though, is that I seem to have found the cure for male pattern baldness!" I snorted. And just like that, the trauma of the past week was neutralized. I have come to depend heavily on this ability of John's. It is like magic, how he can turn a lost job or a fight or an illness into an opportunity, or at least a joke. It is not magic that I am capable of without him.
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