Pessimism And Optimism Essay

Pessimism and optimism are generally seen as two major things which drive human emotion. A depressed person is usually associated with pessimism and a happy person with optimism. However, that is not always the case. A perfectly happy person could have pessimistic thought and a depressed person usually tries to be optimistic of the future. Pessimism, however, is much easier to deal with. It is much easier to swallow pride when an event goes wrong just as one predicted. On the contrary, one is pleasantly surprised when an event renders positive results, regardless of previous predictions. A shopping trip with friends can result in two things: a fight in the group, or, a pleasant evening of jokes and food. Unfortunately when the group
Such as dealing with a break up or revealing feelings to another person. A pessimist prepares for the worst. In their mind there is no that the person they like will like them back and thus they are able to rein back their emotions. Once they have told the other person and that person responded in the negative the pessimist will be able to walk away unconcerned because they were right. If the other person would have returned the feelings the pessimist can smile, giggle and thank the skies they were wrong. Now, after the revealing of the feelings the relationship aspect starts to kick in. It is much easier for the pessimist to assume that their partner forgot birthdays, important dates, and anniversaries then to be disappointed when they do not receive anything. Additionally it is easy to assume a relationship will end at any moment and then be surprised when an engagement rings pops up. In contrast it is much easier to walk away from someone if one knew it would never last. Surprise is much easier to accept and embrace then disappointment and bitterness. Pessimism is simply looking at the half empty bottle of tequila and then being excited because a friend walked in with 3 full