Is There an Alternative to Cynicism?

Life is tainted by malevolence. It's cast in tragedy, and you need something to offset that - otherwise it embitters you. And if you're embittered, then you become vengeful and cruel,. And then you make everything that's made you worse worse in turn. You know, as anyone who's evenham rate student of history soon comes to understand. There's an idea that hell is a bottomless pit.