Think about your average pessimist.
Their premise for being all sour and glower is that,
"If I expect the worse to happen, then if it does I knew it was coming,
and if it doesn't, then I'm happy because it was unexpected."
What a load of crock!
The average pessimist looks for the bad in everything!!
They’re persistent little buggers that never know when to quit!
And when they find
anything less then wonderfully blissful they're like, "Haha, yay! This
world is every bit as crappo as I thought!" and when something good
happens they're not suddenly all daffodils and light, they're more,
"Please it was a freak occurrence, pot luck, won't happen again!" or they
get all disbelieving and end looking up it’s skirt to see where the catch lies!
Now see every pessimist I ever met told me they were a
realist.
What reality exactly though they forget to mention!
So this is my view
on why being an optimist thrashes pessimism into the ground!
(Oh and first off, don't think I mean those madly
crazy, suspiciously American looking, optimists who are being held over a flaming
pit and still think, "Hey at least I'll feed a bunch of starving cannibals!",
there are limits to everything!)
But mr / ms. average optimist simply hopes for the best
and enjoys the journey to find out!
And we ARE NOT flaming loons of cheer and psychotic good
will, we do know that the worse can happen and that it’s good to be prepared
all the same. But see why, oh why, if
you cant see the future, be glum your whole life expecting tragedies that
seldom happen? Why not be happy and hope for the best and keep your spirits up?
That way if the best happens then it just continues the awesome vibes and if
the worst happens then at least you had all that fun and calm before hand! Why
get the worst AND still have a lousy time waiting for it?
My point exactly!!
Optimists are fun to be around! They bounce back
from the bad better (and use fantastic alliteration!), they keep your spirits
up, they’re willing to continue believing in the awesomeness of the world, they
make you smile and feel good about yourself and they’re usually a lot of fun to
beat at cards!
Look, we optimists have times when we're pessimistic as
well, such is life, no one is 100 000% pessimistic or optimistic, we vary. But
when optimistic, it's so much easier to shake off the blues and carry on
appreciating the miracle of life regardless of the setbacks! Moping is not
something we turn into a marathon sport! The blues; feeling angry; feeling
depressed, yes we have those but we shake em faster, we get up faster, we dust
off faster and ON WE GO!!!
So how about giving it a try for a month or so? Doing a
mental 180 if you’re part of the frown club?
Try to see the
silver lining as much as possible! Don't beat yourself up for mistakes you
make, accept others make mistakes too and aren't really out to get you, and
that there is a heck of a lot of good that get's overlooked when you’re nose
deep in looking for the bad and ugly! Traffic happens, it won’t go away. Stupid
people out number you 20 to 1, they won’t go away. Why stress over what you can’t
change! There are so many ways you can make your life a little bit extra creamy
by just looking out for the good rather then the bad!
WARNING!!!!
It’s a highly addictive way of living and life is going
to become a hell of a lot more fun! So maybe don't try it if you want to end up
wasting your life as the ultimate sourpuss who yells at little kids and has
more wrinkles on his face the a sharpie on its foldy butt! Optimism isn’t
for the dead at heart!!!
Otherwise, well duh, what are you waiting for?!?!
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