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Are You an Optimist or A Pessimist?
You’ve heard the saying, do you view the glass as half full or half empty? Personally I like to say, whichever it is, there is room for more! But maybe that is because I like wine, or maybe because I see potential for more in every situation. Does that make me greedy or optimistic?
I like to think I am an optimistic person by nature, that isn’t to say I go around permanently in a state of euphoria and nothing ever gets me down. It does mean that when I am down, I know I won’t feel that way forever. I’m not sure that I was always so convinced that I wouldn’t be living in a constant state of misery, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I probably did know this deep down, even when I was a moody teenager.
What does surprise me about this optimistic attitude to life however, is the number of people that consider it to be a fault. I wonder how many of you are sat there reading this and thinking, oh god she’s one of ‘those’ people, the permanently happy smiley bouncy kind? It’s ok, I get it. If you are not feeling very enamoured with life, having someone appear to have nothing get to them, the whole of life just being a breeze, ugh annoying!
Well, personally speaking, that is not the case. It isn’t that I am happy all the time because life is so easy. I choose to be happy even when life is hard, which it often is. But if I were to think…
