Optimist or Pessimist ? O_o

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute :P

As for me I'm pessimist : I Don't expect great things to happen , because if great things happened i would be happy , And if bad things happened i would be normal but for an optimist , if great things happened he is normal because he expect it , in another hand if bad things happened he is sad .. Wot abt u , wot kinda a person r u ? :) (with the reason)

When you live with someone like me 24/7, you have to be optimistic and love life!

Life is awesome. It's a self fulfilling prophecy, the more of one mood you project, the more you attract. So if your stuck in that kinda circle… why not make it a "im awesome and love life" mood? :D

I think your view on pessimists and optimists is just an excuse for feeling low and not expecting much from life. correct me if im wrong.

I think your view on pessimists and optimists is just an excuse for feeling low and not expecting much from life. correct me if im wrong. Thx for sharing =) My life is great , i expect a lot from it but that's how i preview things because even if I'am pretty sure of smtn to happen , i don't push it that much … i take every last possibility , so if i didn't like the result i won't be shocked.

but when you are optimist then you are happy longer because you wait smth longer because hope dies last (or smth like that i dont know how dose this go on English this is Croatian version lol)

cheese i think you look on everything on science way (like there is no magic and god and that kind of stuff) i think it is good to belive in those things because it helps you in life dont you think so (like when you are in danger and there is no way out and all your hopes are down but there will always be one hope, god, and it is good to know that there is smbd up there watching on you) i am not that much religious and i belive in science but smth like that is god to feel dont you think so lol

god_peet wrote: for an optimist , if great things happened he is normal because he expect it , in another hand if bad things happened he is sad .. But an optimist would find something good in the bad things that happen and not be sad at all, right? :)

@Mouzi : yeah ur right , but in another hand , mostly how to analyze the result goes back to the individual .. After all everyone (optimists and pessimists) should learn something from bad things :)

i'm kind of both. when things are looking bad, i'm an optimist. when things are looking good, i'm a pessimist. it seems to work out pretty well for me.

I understand people can turn themselves around and stuff. Other things like environment come into it in my view. Some people have the genes that make one or the other easier to get into. Hard for me to focus on either one anymore, I just try not to think about anything bad that could happen, and don't expect anything good so I won't get disappointed. Cheap way out until I find a better way I guess.

Its easy to be optimistic if your greedy, so I strive to one day rule all of existence. And nonexistence too. Because of this I'm always optimistic, in a pessimistic sort of way.