Are you an optimist or pessimist? - Page 10

MickD · ‎03-10-2010

I am a realist with a side of optimism.....it is what it is.....I stomp my feet....it will get better/this too shall pass.....and it always does!

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.... ~ S & G

dulwich · ‎01-18-2012

Happy to say Optimist yahoo!

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

I'm a pessimistic realist. I fear for the worse and know that eventually it will happen. In the meantime, I am just having a hard time seeing that happy ol' ray of sunshine. I'm not alone and so take solace in numbers.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

MyGirlsMom · ‎03-09-2010

I'm an optimist by nature and know many times circumstances change for better or worse. I do believe that light will also shine brighter and brighter, dark clouds will disappear and things will be seen in their real and natural state.

"Call a thing a thing" - Iyanla Vanzant

"When people show you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou

Keep Your Face To The Sunshine and You Will Not See The Shadow

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

I'm an optimist, have been for most of my life BUT...... I also deal with reality each and and every day and know what's in front, besides and in back of me. I do not look at the world with rose colored glasses nor deny the ugly truths that are happening.

One thing that I still have is a love of humanity and without it I would be a lost soul.

You Don't Own Me- Leslie Gore
(You don't Know) How Glad I Am- Nancy Wilson

JJ · ‎04-15-2010

What I don't particularly like about this question is, and let me clarify, this is not against OP or any specific posters at all, I'm speaking generally, that it seems many think that is better to be optimistic than pessimistic, and in turn, optimists are better than pessimists. I don't like the connotation that goes along with this. I think nature plays a big part in the optimist v. pessimist thing. Yes, by nature I am a pessimist. However, I am also a realist. And just because I tend toward the pessimistic, doesn't mean I am negative all the time, which is I think is the association to pessimism. I am positive about many things but I also believe cr*p is cr*p, and no matter what, it will smell like cr*p. I will also call out BS all day long. I will say what I think if someone asks, and I do not sugar coat things. That's just me. I just think we are who we are, and that should be okay. We all have personal strengths and weaknesses. And I think most of us try to be our best-selves every day. I am always a work-in-progress...