GoatOnFire wrote:
Alex is right that you're not the only one. I don't think he's right that it gets better, it's heading even further south for me at the moment. Be a pessimist, at least then you'll be prepared for when everything goes wrong.
Yikes, I'm going to turn this around and say "be an optimist."
The last thing we need is more depression on this planet. One can respond to positive thinking, quite well. I'm having a very tough time associating with someone at work because he is EXTREMELY pessimistic and is a big downer, to me. Ironically, he has no friends.
If you think "negatively" then everything you DO is going to turn out "negatively." You start looking for the negative in everything so you'll "be prepared when it goes wrong." Before soon, everything in your life will be "pessimistic" and now we are more on the "depressed" side of the mind then the "optimistic" side.
Sorry, Goat, not to pick your suggestion apart and there is some humour I understand in the 'preparing' part of your quote, but I strongly feel many here need a NEW way to view life as the way they have is too "negative" already and is only "feeding" the negativity in themselves (its a viscious cycle). I've been on both sides of the fence. I used to be a "pessismistic realist" and surprise, life sucked. I turned my view around, on some things (and many more to come) and my life is dramatically different. Hell, I dropped 5 strokes in golf because my anger is down 10 fold