Are You A Pessimist, Realist or an Optimist?

Pessimist - Someone who looks at the glass as half empty and looks at the down side of things more often.

Realist - Someone who generally looks at things as they are and has a neutral opinion on things without being pessimistic nor optimistic.

Optimistic - Someone who looks at the glass as half full and looks at the brighter side of things more often.

Which do you feel you most vere twoards?

I'm one of the most optimistic people you will ever meet. Skype calls have proven that. We'd be talking about a subject that got everybody down in the dumps, and I'd find the silver lining that kept my mood up. I'm always looking to the brighter side of things. Sure, bad things are going to happen; but you have to take the good with the bad. So you know you always have something good to look forward to in the future.

.. Well, there is one subject I'm rather pessimistic about, but we won't delve into that here ^^;

I'm a realist. I like to crush optimists view and raise pessimists spirits. XD

Pessimist Totally.

I really look at the bad side of everything.

I'm almost always optimistic. I look for the good side of things even if its less obvious than the bad stuff. Because that makes me feel happy.

I used to be an optimist, but now I think I'm mostly a realist.

Work seems to have done that to me.

My position is similar to optimism, but lacking the short-sightedness. Things can usually work if we make them work.

Blind optimism or pessimism annoys me. If you're blindly optimistic, you're a fool. Things aren't always wonderful. Bad stuff happens. There are murders, rapes, assaults, robberies. There are bad people in the world, and they need to be stopped. The only way that we can stop bad things from happening is by taking action.

The position you described second (which is not realism) is something that should be blatantly obvious to anyone with half a brain. Things are never wholly wrong or wholly right.

If you're blindly pessimistic, my assumption is that you're apathetic. If you think everything's going to be wrong, you're not working to fix that, so of course it will. The only way mankind can save itself is by working together (I think that's a quote, but I don't remember who said it).

Edit: The terms realism and idealism have so many differing ideas associated with them that it's probably better not to use either. Let's go with that.

Pessimist. Everything is going to go wrong, everyone hates me, everywhere is dangerous. My happy go lucky attitude is all an act. ^_^

I'm more of an Optimistic person. I look on the bright side of things that go wrong.....

I'm a pessimist. The thing is, if you expect the best, you can be disappointed. But if you expect the worst, you can only either get what you expected or have a pleasant surprise.

Optimist, I always look on the bright side. I believe time spent worrying about all that can go wrong is time wasted :3.

Truthfully, I am a realist, but every day I am trying my best to be optimistic about things

I think I'm more of a Realist then any of the other two. I have neutral perspective about most things.

I'm a pessimist because I always mess up when I try to look on the bright side.

If being pessimistic is a good deed, I'm more than a saint.