Pessimism vs. Optimism

Which one do you think is more resourceful and beneficial?

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Neither. Realism is the best, in my opinion.

Pessimism gets you nowhere, so optimism is better - but be too optimistic and you lose touch with reality.

Be optimistic...but also be real about the situation. Relaism is the way to go.

Wtf?? How the hell did that happen?!

Sorry people.

Optimism with realism...lifes to short to be negative all the time people :o)

They both have good and bad points.

Pessisism just let you think the yesterday and it will be yesterday when you were about the day before
but optimistism just fools you,you think you are kinda happy until you understand the truths..
i prefer to be 50% percent optimist,50% pessimist
It makes you neither too regretful nor too dreamy...

Optimism.

I believe that happiness is a mind over matter kind of thing. Believe in the best, the best will happen.

I suppose you need to be realistic SOMEtimes as well..

It's all about post-modernism.

I read somewhere today that we need both pessimists and optimists to have a properly functionning society: The optimists to invent the plane, and the pessimists to invent the parachute.

I thought it was kind of a neat perspective.

'Aim for the moon, because even if you don't get there, at least you'll land amongst the stars'

Imagine you're shooting an arrow; you get a lot further by aiming high up (and no, not straight up vertically, don't get technical about it) than if you aimed towards the ground.

I think it's best to be borderline. Though personally I'm a pessimist it is a very depressing way to view life. But having optimist friends has shown me time and time again how dissapointing it is for optimists when something goes wrong after having such high hopes for something working out. Neither can possibly be better than the other.

Hence my point that realism is the best

Optimisim is better then the other option i'd have to say

Here is my opinion.

Obviousness is what most of us sometimes see as optimism or pessimism.

Pessimism is not saying "I know i got a failing grade." on a test as the teacher passes it out, a test you very well know you didn't try on and had no knowledge on the topic at all. That is just... obviousness. Pessimism nor optimism has anything to do with that.

Pessimism is when there is a 50/50 chance, unknown to your knowledge the outcome, of either positive or negative, and you supposed that the negative shall be the outcome because it's "just your luck"

Optimism is just the opposite.

I believe that realism is not that good, because then you don't have any imagination... there is no surprise, no "umph" to life, to make you stand on your toes and cross your fingers in anticipation.

I agree with the latter, that the world must coexist with both pessimism and optimism, and the world would be "too high" or "too low" had we one and not the other.

I do not believe that realism should take the place of Optimism and Pessimism.
Snap into reality, lmao, realism is living a fuzzy dream.

That, of course, is merely my opinion.

you're quick! hee hee! lmfao!

If we just dealt with it, this poetry website would have zero websites. We need to deal with something pessimistically or optimistically so that we can reassure ourselves that something will happen, good or bad. Realism is true, stating the obvious, but it is just... too dull and too bleak.

That, also, is where eccentricity and the average joe are opposites. Eccentrics look on the crazy side, average joes are just realists who only see things as they are... in other words, would read a poem and see no meaning... only words...

That is a generalization, of course. All people havea touch of average joe AND a touch of eccentricity in them in most cases, no matter who they are prodominantly.

No matter what our perspective on the matter, we will still look through the subject through the same eyes, unable to change our opinions even if we wanted to.
I mean, i couldn't be a realist even if i thought it were the best way to go... it is too, unfoundational (if that is a word) or unsatiable.
I like eccentricity, and i am a pessimist with a slightly optimistic way of seeing things at one point or another. I couldn't change that fact although my opinion itself may change...

(see, this is where the chat room would be of use)

o well. Let's not get this thread locked by talking about the chat, since that seems the mods favor doing.
Yes, i agree with you. We have it both ways, whether in minority or majority, whether we like it or not.

I love that phrase.

"A fuzzy dream"

It's SOOO much fun to imagine what it would be like to actually live in a FUZZY dream.. . with like, cotton on the ground, lmfao, and a fuzzy border....

Now THAT is neither optimism nor pessimism. That is just plain hilarious!

(back onto the topic)

What do you think causes narcissism? Over optimism about a persons own capabilities?

hmmmmm.. (is thinking)

No, narcissism is extreme self-ego and an attraction to someone's own image (in my own words. I think that is correct....)

Wouldn't that mean that a person is extremely proud of themselves and attracted to them selves due to the thought that they have and can achieve perfection?
Hmmm, seems i am asking a question that i have an answer in mind for, lmao. How double sided!

*In my words, it takes one question to figure out if you are narcissistic, and two for optimistic and pessimistic*

Are you a narcissist:

1)Would you date yourself?

Pessimism, Optimism:

1) Do you look on the bright side?

2) When do you think the world is going to end?

My answers:

Narcissism:

1) Hell no! I avoid looking in mirrors just to save myself from the horror lmao!

P/O:

1) No

2) Never. We each have our own individual world that will end.

Therefore, i am not narcissist, yet i am borderline optimistic, but overall pessimistic.

(we should host a talk show / talk radio show!!!)

In the hope that if you don't look forward to something, and nothing happens, you won't have to deal with the dissappointment.

Technically, pessimism is emotional laziness lmao!