legolas

I am a huuuuuuge optimist. I try to pass it onto all my friends. I just think it's a good way to look at life. Why think so negative and be unhappy? Thinking things will work out has helped me with a lot of things and makes life simplier and more enjoyable.

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"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

spectre

Optimist, always. I've been told with certainty that I should have died on more than one occasion. Optimism has served me well.

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"Fuck these chains
No goddamn slave
I will be different" ~ Machine Head

forseti-6

I'm a very optimistic person. I subscribe to the doctrine "in every bad there is much much good"

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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

SofaKing

Huge optimist here as well, always have been, always will be.

GakFace

Optimist here too. Why be angry when you can laugh every five minutes? Being happy is the way to live life, and it makes everything so much more enjoyable.

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RoboBlaster:
Welcome to the club! Not that I'm in the club. And there really isn'a a club in the first place. But if there was a club and if I was in it, I would definitely welcome you to it.

Miserlou

I'm a pessimist. I don't like being one either, I try to change my outlook but it just isn't the way I am. Funny how I choose optimist as friends. It might be an "opposites attract type thing" because I have a good friend who is an extreme optimist, when comes to decision making and the like our outlooks tend to cancel each other out, so we come up with something somewhere in between.

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"Oh, these pies arn't homeade. They're from a factory............a bomb factory.................they're bombs."

Harshaw

Pessimist, I wasn't always this way. But I do have my oppimistic moments.

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This too shall pass.

Nefir

I am definitely an optimist. I believe people are generally good, that the world is a mostly fair place, and that I've got a growing truckload of good karma coupons waiting to be redeemed one day.

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Kompressor break your glowstick, Kompressor eat your candy
Kompressor open jaws, Kompressor release ants
Kompressor watch you scream, Because Kompressor does not dance

krwlz

Im a pessamist. At least other people think so, I prefer realist.

World's King

Pessimist.


Everything sucks.

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heavy is the head that wears the crown

bundy

i´m a bit of a pessimist.
well, maybe i´m just a cynical optimist... is that possible?

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Ohayo!!!

Mael

i'm an optimistic pessimist. i'm always gonna expect the worst, even though i naively hope for the best. even though i know that's not gonna happen.

taliendo

i love being an optomist. the world is brighter that way, even when its raining.

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-LIFE IS ABSURD-

analog

i'm really both, depending on the situation. It seems that many things in my life get the optimist in me, but certain things still have me perpetually pessimistic, like girls. I ALWAYS assume i'll never get anywhere, find what i'm looking for, and that they won't find me attractive, etc. But in most things in life i'm fairly optimistic, tempered with realism.

tricks

I used to be an optimist. Seeing people screw each other over changed my mind.

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People Are Stupid. People can be made to believe any lie, either
because they want it to be true or because they fear that it is.

datalink7

Skepticist

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Ashes and diamons
foe and friend
we are all equal
in the end.

j03th3j3w

always look at the good side of things... optimist would be me!

CSflim

realist

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Snoogans

Optimist.

Life is awesome.

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Internet hint: If someone's asking if what they do is weird, it always is.

JoenOcoee

I'm a realist...

The glass is half full of something that gives me a rash.

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jvwgtr

I try to be optimistic. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

ARTelevision

I don't mean to not answer directly, so I'll at least include the word "optimist" in my self-characterization.

There is nothing more central to my world-view than honing a working conception of "realism". I'd say I am a realist. But as I consistently emphasize the positive aspects of things, I can say I'm a realistic optimist.

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onodrim

While I do have my bad days like everyone else, I'd say overall I'm an optimistic person. I always try to find the good in any situation.

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"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there’s little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides"
-Carl Sagan

Regziever

I'm a fullblooded Pessimist, expect the worst and you'll get nothing but happy suprises or right to gloat in that you were right all along..

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Life is shit,
Death is even worse,
So what's the point of killing yourself?
/Ignatius Camryn Paladine

TheBrit

Engineer: The glass has 100% redundency, capacity wise.

DownwardSpiral

Pessimistic here, no idea why though.

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"So Keep on Pretending.
Our Heavens Worth the Waiting.
Keep on Pretending.
It's Alright."

-- H.I.M., "Pretending"

Bloodslick

I'm an optimist in relationships, a pessimist in most other things. I tend not to try things that I'm not sure I will succeed at. It leaves my expectations constantly high, but with very few expectations. What would that qualify me as?

wannabenakid247

An optimist however i do avoid thinking about death. I think its important to enjoy life.

splck

optimist for sure.

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nice line eh?

skysooner

It kind of depends on the situation. I'm optimistic sometimes, but I also get pessimistic when it comes to situations where I know something is not likely to happen (i.e. trying to recruit volunteers at church to do anything is ridiculously hard and even then they will gripe and moan the whole time).

dragon2fire

neither

i expect the worse but dont dwell on it


i guess i am more of a cynic then any thing

Dano069

Dano = Eeyore

'nuff said.

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sailor

I dont think Im a pessimist, but rather a realist. A lot of my friends call me a pessimist though, so I voted pessimist.

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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
--Plato

rogue49

I'm not negative so I'm not a pessimist.
However, I do know the shit in life and what people do in it,
but I still try to look on the good side of things and move forward.

So I'd say a cynical optimist.

anti fishstick

i'm not sure if you can really fit me into one of these categories. but i chose pessimism, at my core. i'd like to think of myself as a "learned optimist" though because i have, for the most part, a pretty good outlook on everything. but i'm also a realist, so some people might mistake it for pessimism. why be optimistic for world peace when you KNOW that is never going to happen. i may hope it will, but lets be realistic.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin

SecretMethod70

Generally speaking, I'm an optimist. Moreso when I'm at work because that's just the environment we keep, but also elsewhere. No sense in getting all hung up about most things.

Of course, there are also things that I do get hung up about, and in those cases I'm a pessimist. But not too often.

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Le temps détruit tout

"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

arael

Generally an optimist. Depends really though.

txlovely

If you don't allow yourself the release of looking forward to what may come, then why live? I like to say I'm a realist. To some that can sometimes translate to pessimist, but that's just unrealistic...

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Cruel words erode self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

sexymama

Most people say I'm optomistic. I would tend to say realistic with a positive outlook.

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It's not about being perfect; it's about developing some skill at managing imperfection.

jw_toyboy

I have a very optimistic view of life in generall... however I am quite the cynical pesimist when someone/something irks me.