It bothers me when people seem to never have anything they seem to like about themselves. Some go to many lengths to find negatives about themselves and I plain just don't get it. I understand pessimism and optimism, but I like to believe that nobody can be totally pessimistic about everything in their lives.
I've been on the high end of the weight scale and I've been on the low end of the weight scale. I've been in the Superior Physical Fitness Category and I've been in the Bottom Physical Fitness Level. Most of my adult life I've been blessed with good health(which to me means minus any serious illness, and has nothing to do with my Physical Fitness Level).
I've also been closer to death than most any 10 people that I know combined. Throw in spending time in a Mental Ward and I've been through many situations similar or worse than many I see some here that have nothing but negative to say about themselves with every thing happening in their lives. Be it their physical health/mental health/physical fitness or lack of it.
Maybe somebody can enlighten me as to why so many choose expend more energy by looking mostly at only the negatives about themselves or in their lives. Since I was old enough to drive and pay my own bills, starting at age 12, I have been and will continue to be an eternal optimist. And that includes any and everything life might just throw my way.
Anyone that has been a competitive athlete almost all their adult life, and has competed in both team and individual sports, understands that pessimist are very hard to find among these types of people. Most that I've met, which is thousands and thousands, at times of injury may first be "very down mentally". That however is short lived and their main focus is not "what was or what is". They put their total focus on "what will be" and that is why competitive athletes as a whole are much better at having such low opinions of themselves, as do many that cannot see past the day in which they are living.
I've been visiting and commenting on the QVC Bulletin Boards Sports/Health for over 12 years, and during that time the stories I've read here correspond almost exactly as they do in my experiences in real life. Many of these stories are about terrible things happening to nice people, some deal with them and look to the future and better things fro themselves. This is where I've found real life optimist and cyber life optimist to be exactly the same.
It is more than a mere coincidence that the most athletic and competitive people I've met during my pretty long life, are also the ones that have very little negative to say about themselves, or the things that life has dealt them. Their concern is more focused on what they have to deal with in the days/weeks/months and years ahead.
The ones that are the most successful, from my many views of real life and people, are not the ones that find only negative things to say about themselves and the thinks that have happened to them during their lives.
Answer honestly the question I posed in the title of this thread, and if "This Person Is You?"
hckynut(john)
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