Optimist or Pessimist?
 

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. :D

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

Pessimist.


Everything sucks.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Skepticist :)

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

realist

Optimist.

Life is awesome.

I'm a realist...

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

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

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.

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.

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..

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

Pessimistic here, no idea why though.

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?

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

optimist for sure.

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).

neither

i expect the worse but dont dwell on it


i guess i am more of a cynic then any thing

Dano = Eeyore

'nuff said.

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

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.

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.

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.

Generally an optimist. Depends really though.

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... ;)

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

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

Optimist towards my life but pessimist towards humanity.

I'm a big-time pessimist. The way I see it, if you look at everything negatively, then you're never let down. It also makes happy things much, much more enjoyable.

Example: "There's a chance of school being cancelled due to ice!"

I'll accept that it's not going to happen. That way, if it doesn't happen, I don't care...and if it does, my day just got 300% better.

Or a hyped-up videogame: "This game is supposed to be the game of the year!"

It will suck until it comes out and proves otherwise. If it does end up sucking, I won't be surprised, and if it turns out to be awesome, then I'll love it even more.

-Lasereth