My 2¢

Have you ever called someone negative or pessimistic or the opposite,optimistic. In our society I feel like being optimistic is viewed as a good thing or a good trait to have. I like to think of myself as an optimist, but I don’t think it is a good trait. Optimists like to look at the glass half full and look for the positives in life, even in bad situations. But let’s be honest, our lives are full of bad situations and being positive about negative things is just plain stupid. As an optimist myself I have tried so many times to look at the positives or say that everything happens for a reason but that’s just a way of coping with the shit you have to deal with. Being an optimist is a way of setting yourself up for an upset. If you expect the best and don’t get it, then you are continuously setting yourself up for aggravation. On the other hand if you are pessimistic or negative, you don’t expect anything or you expect the worse. In my opinion, this is probably the best way to live because you can never get upset about something because you weren’t expecting it to work out anyway; but when things do work out it’ll be ten times better because you didn’t expect them to. IDK if this makes sense but if you think the glass is half full and you’re in a dessert you’re going to be mad when that shit runs out real quick. But if you know that it’s half empty, you’re already preparing yourself mentally for having to be thirsty.