Possitivity or Pessimistic?
Being pessimistic is sort of a way that a person expresses his or her concerns. This is true, whether you like it or not, because the fact that there are people in this world that are just do indifferently cold - as if they wear the exact features of lake placid. For those of you that seem to burst with positivity and despise the very facets of being a pessimist, you shant be able to notice the side-effects of being too extremist in taking the pose of "always on the up side".
The point of being possitive is not to condemn the more darker sides of reality, but instead a lesson to deal with things in a more cheerful nature. There is much belief that being pessimistic will turn you into a spoil sport of sorts. Indeed this is true, though it still depends on the severity of the pessimist and also the accepting nature of the crowd that receives the criticisms of the pessimist. The problem that exists, is one that derives being possitive as a state of mind which always looks up and never looks down; being always pursuing forward and never looking back. In other words, you are just looking at the good points of reality and in much denial of the more lackluster and dismaying events in life. It would be as if you possessed a very biased outlook towards reality, and in doing so being very discriminative of the other sides of reality that you do not wish to accept.
The "facts of life" as many philosophers and thinkers have put is, is not one that is biased towards either side of the scale - possitive or pessimistic. Instead, it is an achievable balance between the two outlooks of one's reality. To only volley for one side is like saying that all your life you've only experienced either possitive or negative events. However, the truth is that each and everyone of us goes through ups and downs in life. The outlooks on life merely help us put events into perspective and do not offer a universal solution for every happening in life. That type of philosphy would be looking towards the type such as "rationalism", "empiricism", "feminist", "existancialism" and other more complete and confounded thoughts that surround the "science" of existance.
For instance, have you ever once seen a person who consoles another say that he should see the world as a very wretched and dark place? I'm talking about the situations that normally happen and not one that would lead another into suicide and angst. The reasons for possitive thinking act merely to cheer a person up or to get a person going again. It is not a denial of the more darker outlook of life, which unfortunately some misguided persons have been turning to. A pessimistic person deems matters very calculatively and puts them into perspective to expect the worst. It would seem that ones that do not have much cheer or delight in their perspectives have been put into this type of thinking. It is true that many of these people dwell in very calculative actions and work towards ensuring every single detail to minimize risks. It's as if you're taking matters too seriously, right? Incorrect. These people are the ones that made it possible for the human race to work problems of pinnacle difficulties and those who calculated the risks of going to the moon, plus other people that have the tasks of looking out for the details of matters on a daily basis. However, the problem occurs when people are not accepting of their more downward outlook on life and reality. "Everything is a problem," people say, and, "They never stop complaining." If you really think and look back, was that person really ever always that way? Weren't there times when the person was just out there to have some fun?
For those "possitive" wannabies out there, there is something that you must learn to have - a more accepting nature. The fact is that being possitive about everything or being pessimistic about anything would lead to two very extreme personality disorders - mania and paranoia. I believe that most people reading would not be in these categories. Though, don't you think you're just touching that line when you always say "nothing can go wrong" or something that inevitably surrounds the "happy" nature of reality? In terms of analogy, reality and life have no emotional nature, but it is the people in the world who give life its "cheerful" or "sad" nature to give meaning to something that has always been well beyond our capabilities to explain.
Those out there, I proclaim a more complete perspective for life: finding the balance. You can never be too possitive or pessimistic. Find that balance and you will be able to understand and take in things more accurately and calmly.
Always keep an open mind.
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