Optimist or Pessimist?

My mother is a pessimist - Expects the worst and is surprised by the good. Never disappointed.
My father is an optimist - Expects the good and is often bitterly disappointed.

I'm somewhere in between. I look for the good but am never surprised when i don't get it.
 
Being optimistic has always left me disappointed, being pessimistic gives me nice surprises every now and again and everyone loves nice surprises! I would say I'm a chronic pessimist with occasional spasms of acute optimism - which always seem leave me more pessimistic than ever.
 
mrbios said:
the glass is half full if its being filled, the glass is half empty if its been drunk from........basicly i dont know
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Thats the same view i take with the glass situation but as far as real life goes im normally a pessimist, but i do have those days when i believe i can fly :D

Pauliee needs to reduce his sig filesize methinks
 
I'm a short-term pessimist but long-term optimist.

I'm fairly sure that whatever I'm about to do/see/whatever will go badly for me, but I also have this totally irrational feeling that everything will be OK for people in the long run.
 
I am by nature relatively cautious and as such probably come across as a bit of a pessimist outwardly.
However, this shaky exterior belies an inner self-confidence and belief that I can have an influence on things and make them turn out OK. I just don't tend to shout it from the rooftops! Also by being a pessimist about somethings, it actually fixes the problem, because it means that I anticipate negative outcomes and plan a response to them.

One advantage of pessimism is, of course, than one is never disappointed.
 
yes but there are times my pessimism causes over thinking a situation, the amount of what if scenarios that go through my head with any action i could take on things is scary sometimes, most of them usually negative though
 
Oh for sure, I'm forever over-analyzing even fairly trivial situations. I've had so many 'imaginary conversations' with people you wouldn't believe!
 
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