Are you an optimist?

Well, my mom totally says I'm more of the negative type. I do admit I am kinda pessimistic. Okay, so not just kinda but I am pessimistic for most of times. I don't know but I get panicky all the time whenever I sense something will go wrong or postponed. I get this feeling most of the time - well I couldn't help it anyway. Although, I admit I am like this, I get optimistic at some point too! Of course that would be ridiculous if all the time I'd be the electron of life! Hahaha.. I get optimistic when I see the stars, the sky, the moon, the nature's wonders. And feeling the wind on your face makes it the BEST. I hope someone would agree to this. Lol.

I try my hardest to be optimistic about life but i sometimes find it very difficult. I am a natural worrier and this often leads to me worrying things will go wrong, which is pretty pessimistic! It drives my boyfriend crazy as he is always optimistic and positive about situations. I also have a friend who is always negative, ALWAYS! If you have a problem, his is worse and if his problem could spell the end of the world!! I just laugh at him and tell him that he needs to get some perspective as rhere are many people worse off than him-that normally shuts him up! lol

I'm an optimist. I don't think you can change a pessimist unless they want to change. No amount of trying to convince them is going to work unless they want that change for themselves. Some people are happy with their pessimistic attitude. I don't care for eternal pessimism, so I tend to stay away from people who are constantly negative like that. Just keep being yourself, and show by example that optimists can lead a happy life without succumbing to negativity. I cope with those who are natural pessimists by either limiting my conversations with them, or just by understanding that they have some kind of problem that keeps them having a down attitude about their life. Optimism shows that no matter what happens, there is always hope (or a good side to be found) in any situation, pessimism shows that you don't think there's any hope left for anything. No matter what, hanging around a pessimist can be tiring to the soul!

It is better to be optimistic than to be pessimistic all the time. Life is good and we can be what we want to be if we want to!

I think I am more of a balance between both. I sometimes even think of myself as bipolar. I get mood swings very easily. One moment I may really be angry at you, but then the next I will try to just joke about it like nothing wrong happened. You know when you have those moments when you are really happy and no one can get you down? To me it usually happens after a win in the sports I am involved with, or a fun date, or just from having a good day. That's when I'm really optimistic. It could also start with when I get a good answer for my recitation in class. There is this one professor that everyone is really scared of. When you recite in his class, you really have to know how to defend your answer, he tends to ask supporting details about it. Whenever I get a very good from him, my day, however gloomy it previously was will be really sunny. I am mostly pessimistic during Mondays. The start of the week. They really get me down. Especially if I had an awesome weekend and didn't want it to end. Like I would be hanging out or partying with my friends on Sunday night and I have to go home early because I have an 8am class the next day. It really gets me down. After that, it is just a transference. People get affected by my negative energy. It makes me feel guilty later on but I cannot help it when I'm feeling like that. When I'm faced with pessimistic people, it usually goes either way. Either I get pessimistic as well, or I try to get a smile out of them. Usually it is the former. Especially when it comes with my friends. I feel empathic to their problems.

I am a very optimistic person most of the time....because what is the need in going around being down all the time? If you go around always talking and acting negative, the generally people around you don't like being around you because sometimes you depress them too. Whenever I'm around someone who's always down and negative I try to just brush it off and let them know that it's going to get better....sometimes that makes them feel better and sometimes its like a lost cause, because no matter how much you try and tell people that things are eventually going to get better they just choose not to believe you and they continue to go around being negative and acting down!