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I feel like I should explain the quote on the poster, since it may not seem that cheerful but hear me out. It's my take on the whole slogan poster thing. It took me several weeks of questioning my entire experience of the life and things I've learned to get to it.
The point is that while you should always hope that things will turn out great and be optimistic (and I really do mean that, a cheerful outlook on life is essential to happiness), you should always accept that things might not and rather than be caught unawares, if you already have a plan of action, it makes the worst case scenario a lot less terrible. Also, confronting the idea of the worst-case scenario in the first place and making practical decisions based around it often disperses much of the anxiety of the thing happening anyway, and it becomes not a dark cloud of worry about but simply a different, less appealing outcome. So even though people read it as 'expect the worst', it's really not, it's encouraging you to be prepared if the worst does come to pass.