Jawillie, think of your positive attitude and energy as a gift to the world. Negative energy adds to the energetic pollution of the world and simply creates more negative situations for people to complain about. Positive energy, however, can counteract this - it will make a big difference in your life, but also contribute to the uplifting of the collective consciousness.
Ultimately, it is the effect of those who are thinking positively and taking inspired action (e.g. like you are doing with your business that will create employment for others) that will bring the world economy out of recession... so, no, you're definitely not being selfish by remaining optimistic!
Perhaps you could ask the "doom-and-gloomers" next time, just what it is exactly that
they're doing to help the world?!
