Are you a glass half empty or glass half full kind of person?

Ah you're quite indecisive then i see. I m attempted to lean towards the other side but i'm finding it quite the battle at times really, my ridiculously optimistic partner helps though.

You can be kind as both an optimist and pessimist although the world does need more kindness.

I would say i m glass half empty but i m gradually getting less pessimistic.

I'm a glass filled with cyanide kinda guy.

Aye, I know what you mean. I think I was very optimistic when I was younger but become more of a pessimist over time; I half expect people to be ****s from the outset, or that things will "undoubtedly" go wrong. I think it's to do with experiences though. I'd like to think that world hasn't completely lost its mind (and that I haven't either).

What I did find last year though (because the year before was truly awful), was that keeping a little jar helped; I kept it on my desk at work, and every time something good happened / something funny / went or did something nice etc. I'd put it on a little post-it note, fold it up and put it in the jar. On New Year's Eve, my housemate and I went through them all.

I think it's easy to get lost in the negativity and to forget about some of the more positive things - no matter how small they are. Sometimes the best days involve being able to go for a coffee in the morning, in a quiet spot with a cake that the scales tell me I really shouldn't be eating, and people-watching for half hour.

This.

Perhaps manners too.

"Thank you" and smiles can go a long way

If your a pessimist you're either pleasantly surprised or right

Neither. I'm a realist. But often realism is wrongly described as being Pessimism.

It is always good to look at situations from every possible side, i might be a pessimist but i have quite the analytic and logical brain.

I have found it useful if you could call it that, in some situations it made me treat some days as the last time i could see the people i loved, so i've never taken anything/anyone for granted.

Which is probably better than focusing on either pessimism or optimism.

That is probably something I need to work on, but I do think it's great how you have been able to cherish the days that mattered the most.

I suppose it is better Well i learnt the lesson to cherish moments out of a very unfortunate situation, so now i always live be you don't know what you have till you lose it, so always make the most of everything you have really.

I really do need to adopt that way of thinking!

It might take time to adopt but it really makes you appreciate the little moments.

I'd assume it does..

Another thing to add to my sort of bucket list, I suppose.

Ooh I don't really have a bucket list, maybe I need to make one.

Exactly:P



I have said i was being realistic in some situations to be told, that no i was just being pessimistic. Maybe people have different ideas as to what being realistic is.