General Chat / Are you pessimistic or optimistic?

it means half emptied you prick

optimist.

Half of the glass can be referred to as empty, as in: without water. A perfectly logically consistent phrase.

I'm a bit of a dreamer, quite optimistic about everything. For every Yin there's a Yang, of course, but as a whole, I definitely come out as being extremely optimistic in comparison to others.

If i buy something like a game and get bored of it, i'll think ive wasted the money, even if ive played it for like a year every day of the year. I'm hardly ever optimistic and live a very loner-ish lifem but i dont really care about friends much, hardly anyone talks to me. Maybe thats why im so negative.

I think it depends on the situation. I'm usually pessimistic, but I can be optimistic at the same time. I guess both, but more of a pessimist.

Silly bump!

But yeh, still the pessimist.

Woo \o/

i honestly cannot fathom how people can be pessimistic.

and that, mon frere, is why i am such a crappy human being.

Pretty optimistic... I don't really have much to be pessemistic about tbh...

I'm torn between both. Seems that if you expect the worst, if the worst comes, it isn't as bad because you were expecting it, and if anything better comes, you're pleased with it. The opposite with optimism. On the same hand, if you expect yourself to fail, you often times end up doing so as you don't put in your full effort expecting to fail. And even if what you want to accomplish something with small odds, its better to put those odds aside for a while, because the ones who do end up accomplishing those tasks with small odds are the ones who are optimistic about it. So...basically I'm pessimistic towards what I expect from others and optimistic with what I expect from myself.

i am hardly ever dissapointed with anything.
i tackle everything with all my effort
otherwise, whats the point in even trying in the first place?
if you fail youre gonna blame yourself becuase you think maybe that little extra effort would have made a difference.
if you fail knowing you put your all in, there is no shame.

i don't think i'm pessimistic so much as really really cynical

Realistic or optimistic. I usually understand what can go wrong, but hope it'll go well. But, I can think of many experiences where I either expected the best and was proven wrong, or vice versa, so I can't say for certain. Maybe I'm just not good at predicting.

i am hardly ever dissapointed with anything.
i tackle everything with all my effort
otherwise, whats the point in even trying in the first place?
if you fail youre gonna blame yourself becuase you think maybe that little extra effort would have made a difference.
if you fail knowing you put your all in, there is no shame.

That's my point, I force myself to be optimistic about my own goals in order to put all my effort in. But with others, you can't really control what they do and I naturally expect the worst from them. Guess I was unclear since I was sort of thinking out loud anyway, but mostly my last sentence is what I mean. Assuming you were even replying to me. And with disappointment, I am disappointed even if I put my full effort in and fail, and it makes me want to continue putting that effort in to improve. It could go either way though I guess. You could be content with your failure and stop trying, or be content with it and know you'll achieve it eventually if you keep working. And you can be disappointed and give up, or be disappointed and strive to improve because of it. Just depends on what type of person someone is.

I try to be an optimist and most of the times I am, but still there are those occasions when my nervousness bring out pessimism in me to the fullest

Optimism is more about hope and belief than expectation. I'm optimistic about most everything...even if I truly expect the worst. And, being just a bit older than most here, I've found that what my dad taught me when I was young....positive thoughts breed positive results and vice versa....is predominantly true. There is a certain spiritualistic/karmic relevance to being positive about....well, life in general, that will permeate your life as you develop positive thinking habits as opposed to being pessimistic about things. I've seen over time that most pessimistic people walk around prone to the "sky is falling" syndrome and seem to have a rather unhappy, almost paranoid existence...even to the point of not being able to truly enjoy the better times (being fearful that it simply won't last)...while positive people, even in tough times, seem to have a brighter, more fulfilled existence because they're not stifled by thoughts of what might go wrong and look forward to the good things in life instead of being fearful of all that could/will go bad.

Of course, that's just my opinion......

Edited by K0NG, 26 October 2009 - 05:31 PM.

i don't think i'm pessimistic so much as really really cynical

Same here. Which I think people often confuse with pessimism.

In reply to what Kong said:

I believe there is a large correlation between self-confidence and optimism. Optimism is attained almost automatically when you really 'live the moment'. You can really live the moment when you are not worried about the next. It's hard to not be worried about everything that could happen when you don't have sufficient self-confidence.

There is something to say that actually, when you believe something, when you truly believe in something, it will come true.

I live in a dream, and my dream is reality.

Optimistic. I'm a very happy bunny.

i have quite good self confidence but really bad self esteem.

Optimistic with all aspects of life. It gets annoying for friends but they love it really!

i have quite bad self confidence but really good self esteem.