Pessimism

somebody who tries to find light even in the darkest of places, while a pessimist wouldn’t bother to look because he knows that he probably won’t find it. In reality, I don’t consider myself to be just optimistic or just pessimistic. I would call myself an “optimistic pessimist”. You’re probably wondering what the hell that means. There are some circumstances where the two can actually co-exist. I am somebody who can be very positive but at the same time also negative about life. Not everybody can define themselves as just one thing. *** My life has been full of instances where I would be happy one moment, and be depressed the next minute. No, I am not bipolar, just to clarify that. There was one time in my life where my “optimistic pessimism” had really begun to show. It was when I was in my freshman year of high school. The summer before we had begun school, I tried out to for the volleyball team. About a week later, I was notified that I made the team. Of course I was so happy, I found our practices to be very fun in the beginning. I was enjoying my time on the team. You could say that I was very “optimistic” about playing school volleyball. After about a month of being on the team, my “pessimistic” side began to show. My friends could see it on my face. They would ask, “Hey, are you okay?” or “Adaugo, why are you mad?” In reality, I was never mad, I was just gloomy. During that time, I had been stressing about problems with friends, my B- in math and biology slipping to…

writing. The story shows the struggle that four men face with nature and its uncontrollable tendencies. The four men are depicted as a captain, correspondent, cook, and an oiler named Billie. The story starts with these men out at sea on a dinghy after their steamer ship the Commodore sank. Naturalists believe that human beings are shaped by heredity and environment and dominated by economic, social, or natural forces. This is shown in The Open Boat when the men struggle with the ocean and waves…

Trait Definition Optimism is defined as the attitude of anticipating positive outcomes and that wishes or aims will ultimately be fulfilled (Optimism, 2007). Optimistic individuals also believe that things happen for the best and despite the circumstances, there will be a successful outcome. Referred as a positive mental thinking, individuals with optimism are more likely to have positive expectation and view life events more positively (He et al, 2013). Individual who poses this trait have…

Optimism is Key to Survival Without optimism, everyone would be anti social shut ins. They would not have the courage to leave their houses and converse with others. Pessimists are constantly thinking that everyone is a terrorist or that they are going to become serial killers. If I wasn’t an optimist, there is no way I would have made it this far. My life has included both positive and negative events, but I have chosen to seek the good through it all, even though it might have been difficult.…

Optimism Brought on by Cartoons As a little girl I remember sitting in front of the television watching cartoons. Cartoons, a place where anything was possible, even a flying school bus. Growing up my memories add my sister sitting there next to me, the screen showing talking ponies instead of the old school bus. Even as the cartoon changed, it still had its own message to present, whether it be about the solar system or the magic behind friendship. In Nick Flynn’s lyric poem “Cartoon Physics,…

There are eight stages in Erickson 's psychosocial development. The stages, which reach across the lifespan, each come with their own set of limitations and goals. One of the final stages, in late adulthood, ego-integrity-versus-despair occurs. This stage is characterized by looking over ones own life and evaluating and coming to terms with the outcome. Throughout the aging and adulthood of my virtual life I have made a multitude of choices that would correlate with integrity. During the…

With closed eyes, senses of perception, direction, vision, have been stripped away. Poe’s rhetoric remains, the sole survivor of complete sensory deprivation. With his writing techniques, a prevalent exigence is born: Poe aims to convey the effects of pessimistic reasoning on physicality. Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” portrays the ultimate desolation and revival of thought-processes, emphasizing catalysts of mood, legato, diction. Poe establishes the mood within the story’s first moments:…

Pessimism is a psychological condition and a way of thinking in which an individual has a negative perception about the things around him/her (Reddy, 2014). Being a pessimist means that the person is a negative thinker. These people foresee their future that the worst thing will happen. Negative thoughts came from different origin depends on how people interact with the things that he/she feels and see. This study is significant for every individual living in the world. It helps people to…

views and different ways of looking at valuing life, and none are quite the same. The question seems somewhat metaphysical and can differ from who you ask. It can be taken literally, similar to the Amanda Ripley’s Time Magazine article; in terms of calculating the actual monetary value of life. It can also be taken theoretically, where this is no exactly correct answer. In the end, there is no politically correct way to tackle this question. From my personal perspective, I support the theory…

Grief is different for each person. In my case it was around a year of not being able to completely comprehend the feelings death which I was newly introduced to in this incident. I was struck blinded by my emotions, which made me forget that I can control how I respond to them. Optimism is the most powerful factor that will help a person focus on love and the good times you spent with your loved one, instead of the absence of him or her. A pessimist will vault himself into a worst-case scenario…