As the title of thread asks are you a optimist? I would learn towards yes for myself I try to look at things more positive than negative to be truer to how I imagine my personality should be. That probably sounds confusing but through some of the things I dealt with growing up I at one point stopped feeling emotions for a while and was really a pessimist but eventually once I got out of my situation I was able to reclaim my emotions and became a lot closer to my younger more carefree self but I wouldn't say my feelings of doubt and pain ever went away so I'm a mix of sorts but I try to be the best me and in my eyes that's carefree me.

I understand where you're coming from.

This past decade has tested me and my ability to cope with what kind of circumstances (and lack of) come my way. Without going into too much detail in the 'How' department, I definitely felt my optimism get sapped away as I came to terms with what I was dealing with, and I found that without having a proper goal to focus on, not only was my optimism just *gone,* but I was a much more irritable, sad and I'd daresay pessimistic individual with no proper outlet to make myself 100% back in form.

My optimism is still there, but it just needed some coaxing to get out again, a reason to have optimism, and as much as I always wanted to believe in the past that I could be capable of being optimistic for absolutely no good reason for the sake of staying on top of things, it's a helluva lot easier said than done.

I don't know that I've always been the most optimistic person, but for the longest time I've put a lot of effort into seeing the good in whatever situations I come across. It especially helps me to see the bright side if I have some good moments throughout the day where I feel less stressed.

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Probably not, mostly because of how careful I am with plans and backup plans, so I'm accustomed to preparing for the worst case scenario of anything and then over planning or preparing for what could happen, but in my case that usually balances itself out, it just ends up being a lot of work on my end.

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I wish I could be an optimistic person who always looks to the future with hope and wonder cause all I can muster is dread, and some apathy. I will say that I try to be optimistic as much as I can, but overall I'm pretty s**t at it.

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Personally, I like to refer to myself as an optimistic pessimist, make sense of that and I will give you a cookie or at least I would if I had any but even then I would've probably eaten it already.

Yeah definitely. Probably because I have incredible (non-gacha) luck and the universe very often tends to bend things in my favor, and so that skews my view of the world, but I'm absolutely an optimist. I'm actually proud of my ability to see the good in most bad things and regularly try to combat any pessimistic views of my friends - not to be argumentative (I'm obviously not annoying about it and will back off if needed/requested), but in hopes that maybe I can shed some of my positivity onto them.

To note though, I don't really consider "planning" for the worst to be a sign of pessimism. No matter how lucky or positive you are, there is nothing wrong with having all of your bases covered in case things don't work out that time. I think the difference comes in if you are always *expecting* it.

You definitely seem more of an optimistic guy. I myself am also kind of both. I look at things for how they really are, a realistic perspective, and that would imply that I'm negative but I also always find the positives in things, and I can usually find some sort of sarcasm in a negative situation in order to make it less stressful to deal with.

I guess I don't take things too seriously and I've developed a lot of gratitude over the years. I'm not always good at showing it in person (gratitude) but I always try to find a way to communicate it to someone via email or a message of some sort.

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I'm a very real person so sometimes I come off as a negative person but my outlook on most situations even some that aren't ideal are usually very positive.

This is all really going to depend a lot on how we qualify what "optimism" and "pessimism" mean. I think The best thing I could do would be to just describe my approach rather than try to figure out which term applies more. I'll leave that to your discretion.

I have been referred to as a pessimist for a long while now by a good many, and for simplicity's sake, I'll often claim myself to be top of my class in that area. I will, as others have called it, overthink everything into the ground. I can almost without fail come up with a list of things that could go wrong in any scenario and a number of reasons why. A lot of people don't like that.

It's not as though I want to be right in these scenarios, though. And it's not as if I do it to spite anyone for their positive mental attitude. What I believe I offer is balance to what I believe to be unchecked willful thinking. Where I can come up with no end of potential points of failure, many others will simply choose not to consider them, and I believe we get much more clarity in the big picture with that. Every potential point of failure I point out, every concern and doubt I express, is to the end of preventing that problem before it happens. Every so-called negative outlook is a flag raised in a place lacking a contingency plan.

To summarize, I think I would say that an amount of my hypervigilance is overall healthy for the probability for success of a plan, which I view as a positive thing.

People ate tide pods years ago… how can I be optimistic about things if people are just losing more of their common sense every year. I mean optimistic about myself yes that I can be but optimistic about the world around me? For Jeez like they have cornhole as a sport man that’s worse than golf…

Back at the optimistic tho. I am an optimistic person to my life tho I always have to keep myself grounded with the realization rather than expectations but sometimes I expect the few people in this world to have some sense and not do dumb things as a way for clout. They tweaking man

Also have that realization my ex isn’t taking me back and stop being optimistic about it and not have these fictional expectations