Poll: In a general sense, are you pessimistic or optimistic?
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vashthblackseed said:
I agree with the first half of that.
If you expect everything to go horribly all the time then then you can accept it as the natural default state of things and therefore not have it affect your mood in the slightest.
I mean what's the point in being upset about things just happening as they will?
I'm a realist, Optimism is the blind expectation of good things, and Pessimism leaves you always expecting seeing, and getting the worst of everything.
Realism, is to live life in the best way you know how, and taking the good with the bad, after all most of life is based around how we perceive things, and if you blind yourself to either end of the scale you end up unprepared to deal with what's ahead.
Life is built out of a set of circumstances, decisions, and outcomes, usually consisting of a stream of diminishing returns, forcing us to work ever harder just to stay on the line between manic overhype, and depressing doldrums.
If you see life in a realistic way, it is then entirely your choice whether you use the knowledge you gain through the survival and adaptation involved in carrying on, to live life in a happier, or sadder context, and you can change that to suit your desires.
I generally prefer to put forward a positive front because I don't want to depress people with the shit they undoubtedly see themselves, and I figure if they feel the desire to use denial as a form of escapism, who am I to change that? And if I'm depressed, and down in the dumps, and I know how to change that(usually I do) and don't, then that's my own damn fault, it's not the worlds fault.
In other words, I prefer to see the world as a passive, yet constantly changing environment, that one should never expect to be good or bad, but one should use one's judgement, experience, and knowledge, to "see" it as one needs to, from situation to situation, adapting to everything that happens.
Realism, is to live life in the best way you know how, and taking the good with the bad, after all most of life is based around how we perceive things, and if you blind yourself to either end of the scale you end up unprepared to deal with what's ahead.
Life is built out of a set of circumstances, decisions, and outcomes, usually consisting of a stream of diminishing returns, forcing us to work ever harder just to stay on the line between manic overhype, and depressing doldrums.
If you see life in a realistic way, it is then entirely your choice whether you use the knowledge you gain through the survival and adaptation involved in carrying on, to live life in a happier, or sadder context, and you can change that to suit your desires.
I generally prefer to put forward a positive front because I don't want to depress people with the shit they undoubtedly see themselves, and I figure if they feel the desire to use denial as a form of escapism, who am I to change that? And if I'm depressed, and down in the dumps, and I know how to change that(usually I do) and don't, then that's my own damn fault, it's not the worlds fault.
In other words, I prefer to see the world as a passive, yet constantly changing environment, that one should never expect to be good or bad, but one should use one's judgement, experience, and knowledge, to "see" it as one needs to, from situation to situation, adapting to everything that happens.