Poll: Optimist or Pessimist

[SimuLord]

I'm an absolutely unrelenting optimist. Battle-tested and clinically proven to be able to conquer any shit the world throws at me. It's a confidence forged in reality's fire.

 

[revjay]

I'm more of a pragmatist or realist but I'm a reformed pessimist. Always plan for the worst, that way you're not surprised when it happens and all that.

 

[CitySquirrel]

I'm optimistic that things will go badly...

 

[Marter]

Lots of people seem to think I'm pessimistic. I don't really agree with that, but I suppose it may be true. I don't know, I just am.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things..."

You can't really argue with a quote from Morgan Freeman in one of the greatest movies of all time. Optimist all thew way!

 

[Ziggy]

wish i was a pessimist.
optimists can be such a pain to lisen to

 

[2xDouble]

Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

Murphy was an optimist.

Benjamin Franklin: "When you hope for the best, you're often disappointed. When you prepare for the worst, you're usually pleasantly surprised."

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

"An idealist sees the world as it should be, a realist sees the world as it is, and a pessimist sees both."

Pessimist. I am far too observant to be anything else.

 

[GodsAndFishes]

Pessimist, then I'm either right or pleasently surprised.

 

[Anchupom]

Only sure fire way to tell if someone's an optimist or pessimist is to present them with their favourite food and their least favourite food on the same plate.

They get pissed off, they're a pessimist
They get excited, that's an optimist.

[sub]The glass half full/half empty thing is bollocks. A true optimist would call it a free drink. Or is that opportunist?[/sub]

Anyway, I'm an optimist. Just. I'd call myself an opportunist more, or a situationist. I change how I can be depending on what's going on.

 

[WOPR]

Are you an optimist or a pessimist. I am most definitely an optimist. My life philosophy is "shit works itself out". I'm a pretty happy person as well. Certainly not a downer. So how about everyone else?

Also prediction, the internet is filled with primarily pessimists.

Is the glass half full? or half empty?

me: "It's twice the size it needs to be."

what the heck am I? lol

 

[Squidden]

I'm a pessimist.

I'm never disappointed

 

[neoontime]

I'm a pessimist though I never stop trying.

 

[Blue_vision]

Also prediction, the internet is filled with primarily pessimists.

I will second this, and it appears to be holding up.

I don't get why you'd be a Pessimist. If you just mope about everything, you're spending all that energy doing nothing rather than changing or enjoying the situation.
Reminds me of all the people that go "the world's going to shit, there's no point in trying." Well, half of the reason it's going to shit is because idiots like you are just standing by as it's happening!

 

[Hazard12]

Pessimism all the way. Enjoy it when life's good, 'cause it's not going to last.

 

[Anchupom]

Are you an optimist or a pessimist. I am most definitely an optimist. My life philosophy is "shit works itself out". I'm a pretty happy person as well. Certainly not a downer. So how about everyone else?

Also prediction, the internet is filled with primarily pessimists.

Is the glass half full? or half empty?

me: "It's twice the size it needs to be."

what the heck am I? lol

An engineer, or a realist.xD

I personally think of it as a free drink.

 

[Dorian6]

Well I see myself as.....oh what's the point?

no one's even going to read this

 

[Ldude893]

I'm a little of both. I acknowledge that negative things could happen and will happen, but I choose to make the best of the time till it does. When bad things do happen, I just move on and continue with life the best I can till the next bad thing occurs.
I also tend to look at the positive sides of things more than the negative sides.

 

[The Shade]

Somewhere in between optimism and pessimism. Some may call it realism. I call it alcoholism.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

I am very Optimistic, though I do have periods of Pessimism. Mostly Optimistic though.