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Optimist, easy. I also like to think of optimist as a realist too or at least compared to a pessimist. Like you said a pessimist would say "It's all ruined, or we're completely screwed" but that is so rare to ever actually happen, usually we get something out of it but pessimists tend not to see it.
A very recent and even ongoing situation for me is that I will not be able to get this internship I was planning on because of basically being "poor" and only having one car between us, which in effect means I likely won't get into the phd program because of how competitive it is for my degree and this is the last semester I can do it.
I look at that though that we are rich enough, and lucky enough to even have a car, and lucky enough for me to go to college and get a BA. My intelligence is still in here even if I don't get a phd, so I havn't actually lost something because I never had it in the first place. Besides, I may not have liked the work anyway. Maybe Ill meet my future wife in some venture I wouldn't have normally taken if I had gone to grad school or maybe I would have died driving to my first day of the internship. Basically, who knows? And I prefer to think that things turn out for the best.
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