Does attitude fix everything?

Last night I put the words to a Hee Haw song on my facebook status:

" Gloom, despair, and agony on me Deep, dark depression, excessive misery If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at allgloom, despair, and agony on me" 

Except I used the words Doom instead of Gloom...

However, one of the posts stated "Great Positive attitude". The guy that said it is a fantastic guy, this post isn't about him..it's about that perception. So, here's the question; If I am feeling like the song but decide to have a great positive attitude is everything better? If it's better, for whom is it actually better? Are my circumstances merely perception that altering the perception can correct?

Perhaps there are times that it may work to simply change your attitude. But, to me, that's like taking a blood clotting medicine to stop the bleeding without removing the dog from your arm. I am probably wrong. A positive person may think, take the blood clot medicine in ANTICIPATION of the dog being removed. Whatever... I say get a gun, shoot the dog, clean your wound, wrap your arm, take the body of the dog to the vet to see if it has rabies, etc....

I feel like there's a procedural way to get out of a funk. I don't think deceiving myself is the proper way to do it. Take Job for example. He experienced gloom, despair, agony, doom, misery, etc. He didn't simply paint on a smile and call it positive thinking. He also never found out why...God is not obligated to tell us why He chooses anything...or allows things...or disallows things.

Perhaps on some issues it's a good way to go about things....take for example this picture I took with my phone this morning:

The fog is beginning to clear - the blue sky is peeking through...Things are changing toward a beautiful day. So, if I was gloomy about the foggy morning, there is hope for a beautiful day, so changing my attitude may make sense here..

Now, look at this picture of a real scene taken by photojournalist Paul Taggart:

What is your attitude here? If it's gloomy...will painting on a smile make it better? Sorry for the graphic-ness. But, the point is there is a time and a season for everything - and with that comes the growth and maturity of who we are becoming. How we deal with our gloom and doom says a lot about us...will we simply paint on a smile, grab a camera and take a picture of it? Or, will we slip on a mask and start doing the "needful"...regardless of how we feel. Not being a slave to our feelings but not masking them and being fake either.

What do you think?

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