Optimistic or realistic

[LaG KiLLeR]

Fine ... there are 6 types of people now:

• Dreamers
• optimistic people
• realistic people
• pessimistic people
• paranoid people
• vegetables

So which one are you?

Not necessarily true, you have to be more open-minded. I am not saying that what I am stating is right, but you're being fairly ignorant of the fact that people have the ability to demonstrate different moods in different situations/circumstances, etc. Although what we are characterized as (an optimist, pessimist, realist, etc) depends on which characteristics we demonstrate the most, we are human beings and we will fluctuate from state to state from time to time.

Even the most optimistic person can be a pessimist at one point or another. There is no 100% absolute "optimist", and even a pessimist can be happy from time to time. I'll use a simple example, a homeless person who has no goals for the future and is barely surviving day to day, they are probably very miserable for most of their day, but when someone gives them a quarter, dollar, etc., for that brink moment, they become happy because they are closer to getting their food...or 40...or crack. But, point being, they are happy for that moment.

So, I am all of those (minus the vegetable). I do have big goals/ambitions...I guess you'd call them dreams. In that case, I do dream big about my future and take the necessary action to achieve it. I would call myself an optimist because I believe in the best of people, maybe I am ingenous but I like to believe all people have good. I am a realist because I know all people have the potential of achieving what they put their mind to, although some will have more difficulties than others, and some will face more obstacles, nothing is impossible. Like Gangstarr said, we all run the same race, but everyone at a different pace. I can be a pessmist when you catch me in the wrong mood, or when I have low life-condition. I could be an asshole. And, there are times when I demonstrate paranoia because I feel unsafe in the environment that I am in, I feel a lot of hostility and have that adrenaline pumping in my body.

Well...I rambled on enough. But to conclude, I believe that although people may be catagorized as having a certain personality trait (optimist, pessimist, realist, etc), they are not 100% that...so what's the point? We have a battle within ourselves to try to be the best we can, try to be as consistent as we can, but nothing is categorical....we're only human.

[T3l Ca7]

While people do exhibit optimistic or pessimistic tendencies on different occasions.We generally say someone is 'optimistic/pessimistic/realistic' according to how majority of their decisions are made.

A pessimistic person can make optimistic decision based on wrong information. But a pessimistic person generally look at the downside of everything.

Also there is a dreamer within most of us. Without dreams, life is meaningless. :fear:

[Liquid Blue]

hey so since you don't think when you post

do you just copy someone's shit off a cat-lover's anonymous forum, or does insane shit like this actually dribble out of your head and you catch the puddle of stupidity on your keyboard, to the joy of everyone here?

I'm going to go with a little from column A, and a little from column B

[schope]

While people do exhibit optimistic or pessimistic tendencies on different occasions.We generally say someone is 'optimistic/pessimistic/realistic' according to how majority of their decisions are made.

A pessimistic person can make optimistic decision based on wrong information. But a pessimistic person generally look at the downside of everything.

Also there is a dreamer within most of us. Without dreams, life is meaningless. :fear:

gotta read some schopenhauer biach