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Is it possible to learn to be optomistic when you have been pessimistic your entire life?

I’ve always found the worst in everything since I was a little girl. I am very realistic so I see things as they are and I can’t delude myself or sugar coat anything. If I expect the worst and then something good happens it’s like a bonus, I find when I hope for the best more often than not I end up being let down. I know this isn’t healthy and I’d like to change but at this stage of the game I feel like it is too late for this old dog to learn new tricks and when I try to be positive I feel fake and like I’m not being myself.

Being a pessimist isn’t always as bad as optimists try to make it sound . You may be gloomy all the time and have little or no initiative to bark on new endeavors (if barking on a new endeavor is the word i want ). However, you have less diappointments and an even lesser tendency of dependency than folks with bright and sunny disposition. Optimism has it’s not-so-sunny sides too, although I admit being aound an optimist person is easier than beign arounda pessimist person. HOWEVER, I think to try to “cure” a person of his/her pessimism is like asking him/her the impossible question of overriding his background and be above his experiences. Blotting what he/she used to be and become a more friendly agreeable person. Because people don’t just up and become brooding and melancholic. They don’t choose to be this way. They were MADE that way. They were let down, had the ground move from underneath them. So they find it hard to get off their behind and just grab the hands of hope. By being pessimist, they are just looking out for themselves because they’ve learned early in life that they were the only one who is there for them. So they refuse to take the world upon it’s word and be guillable; coz, obviously, they know better. And anyways, pessimists are the most imaginative and creative people of the two (they can imagine disaster in it’s detail DUH). You can never get the better of a pessmimist (are you kidding me?) coz a pessimist doesn’t just put him/herself out there. And it’s not like life plays fair, anyway. That’s why i love being a pessimist. I play safe all the time and if good things come my way, let them!! If they don’t, they never do anyway. Which is why i see no point in you wanting to be an optimist; a somebody else!