Optimist or pessimist?

[Speedo]

Personally, I tend to lean both ways

Some things I'm pessimistic, others optimistic.... some I just don't care.

 

[Sarevok]

I tend to be the pessimist.

 

[Archer 007]

Pessimist

My theory:
If your an optimist, you can either have things go well and that be what you exspected or things go badly and your sad.
If your a pessimist, you can have things go well and your pleasly surprized or things go bad and thats what you exspect, so no hard feelings.

 

[Shadylookin]

Pessimist.

when somethings bad it's bad and when somethings good expect possibilities that it might not be so good. a silver lining in a mountain of dung still doesn't make the situation good.

 

[Goober]

Fairly extreme Pessimist. I think the world is so screwed up we should've even bother trying to unscrew it. I also say "Why should we diet? We are only gonna live like 80 years anyway, might as well live them faster"

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

Optimist. The world can be changed for the better, but nobody said you could just wish for it and poof!

 

[cgannon64]

Optimist about personal things.

Although lately I've been pessimisitc about politics...mainly a disillousionment with how much change can really be done in the political system, and especially within the parties.

[color=660000]nothings gonna change my world...[/color]

 

[Duke Togo]

Pessimist.

 

[stratego]

Optimist.
If you are an optimist you expect things to go well so you do things to make it go well. Therefore more chances of success. Even when it fails optimist are more willing to try again.
If you are a pessimist you expect things to go badly so you don't try hard to make it go well. The result, more chance of failure therefore generating more pessimism

 

[The Person]

Originally posted by archer_007
Pessimist

My theory:
If your an optimist, you can either have things go well and that be what you exspected or things go badly and your sad.
If your a pessimist, you can have things go well and your pleasly surprized or things go bad and thats what you exspect, so no hard feelings.

That's the way I think. But my perception of the world is too nuanced to be accurately described.

 

[schmiddi]

optimistic pessimist

 

[WickedSmurf]

Optimist. I have absolutely nothing to be pessimistic about.

 

[col]

Optimist.

The pessimists I know and love spend far more time than I do worrying about things that dont happen and are generally less happy than me.

 

[betazed]

Optimist.

Also fatalist to some extent, and believe that the universe evolves as it should. {if it is not evolving the way one wants, tough luck! )

 

[Sickman]

I'm neutral.

However...

I tend to be pessimistic when considering the overall human behaviour
but I tend to be optimistic as I courage people to live life fully.

"Keep your ***** hard, powder dry and world will turn."

This doesn't mean world will turn to your way but things will change.

 

[a space oddity]

Optimistic.

I tend to worry sometimes, but deep inside I know that everything will be alright in the end.

Now why does that sound like a song text?

 

[Stapel]

I invented optimism .

 

[IglooDame]

It's impossible to pleasantly surprise a true optimist.


I'm an optimist in thought and a pessimist in deed - I hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

 

[Turner]

I tend to be pessimistically optimistic. Or optimitically pessimist. Depends, really.

I've found that when you prepare for the worst and hope for the best, things usually turn out okay. After all, when you expect the worse, nothing's really a surprise. And when you get the best, well, then that makes your day, doesn't it? Win-win all around.

 

[Yoda Power]

Im a realist. Though sometimes I try to be pessimistic.