Situational Mentality

I've been actually meaning to blog about this since like November, honestly, but I never got through with it. So here I go again,
Hello, we all do.
In this blog, I will analyze and explain the three ways of anticipating an event or situation.

optimism –noun
1. a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
2. the belief that good ultimately predominates over evil in the world.
3. the belief that goodness pervades reality.


The first of these is being optimistic about it. A lot of people claim to follow this way of thinking, but are really just hypocrites. I was an optimist for a couple months this year, like an extreme optimist. But then I realized that not everything in the world is perfect, so I moved on to a different way of thinking I'll come upon in a few sentences. Anyways, I think optimism's way overrated nowadays. "Oh, don't be such a pessimist, something good is bound to happen." Well, something good MIGHT happen, but then if it doesn't, you'll be really disappointed, now won't you. Another disadvantage of optimism is the failure to see reality as clearly as it should be seen. I realized this when I had the few months of optimism going on. I didn't see the situation from all points of view, I just thought I KNEW that everything would befit my needs, but when it didn't, the disappointment was unbearable. This mentality relates directly with "seeing the big picture." People just see the situation and immediately assume they know everything about it and how to work around it to make everything perfect. They don't check for details and small loopholes, that's not in their vocabulary

pessimism
–noun
1. the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.: His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.
2. the doctrine that the existing world is the worst of all possible worlds, or that all things naturally tend to evil.

On the complete opposite side of the mentality spectrum is pessimism. These people see the worst in every situation. "The cup is half empty" and alla that such. These people are considered quitters are cheaters, cause they consider themselves to fail in whatever they do. "Oh I know I won't make the team, so I might as well not even try." "The test? I don't even know the material! Yahnoe I'ma fail it." These people don't even analyze the situation, they just hear of it and BAM, they have their minds set on losing, which is usually why they DO fail/lose. Such as fascism and communism are both different, but still in the same category; Optimism and Pessimism are like this too. Both sides of the spectrum see the BIG PICTURE and don't check for anything else. They find out of the event and go to black or white, I can or I can't. Usually, the pessimists are the ones that don't even try and end up failing either way.

realism
 –noun
1. interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
2. the tendency to view or represent things as they really are.

Now, the better of all three, is Realism. Realism is in the center of the whole mentality spectrum. Realists tend to analyze, sometimes even OVERANALYZE (to the point where it goes from Realism to Pessimism) the situation. They look at it from different viewpoints and tell themselves that they'll try their best to tackle it, not expecting to fully win or to just lose. I prefer realism myself because well, it's the most logical one, I think. I don't like disappointment and I think that seeing a situation as likely to happen/likely to not happen is better than just setting your mind on one or the other.

Throughout my life, I've always been like a semi-pessimist. The whole "emo" thing then went away and I was more optimistic about things, but then I got to the point where I was TOO optimistic. As explained before, I don't think this works out either. If a whole society was either optimistic or pessimistic about everything, I doubt anything would get done. Optimism would set their hopes too high, and everyone would try to overachieve at whatever they do. Though it's arguable that optimism means determination, that's not always the case. When one is optimistic, they assume that everything's going to be right no matter what, so that's when laziness and "hoping" kicks in. But as I've been told by someone I love, "Hope is for the unprepared," and optimists are truly unprepared. On the other hand, a pessimistic society would just give up right away and not even attempt at anything.

So I think that it would be better off, if we all just stopped being so happy or emotional and being more real to ourselves and everyone else. Of course, who am I to tell anyone and everyone what to do, but I guarantee you, if everyone becomes less black and white (including myself, I am in no means saying I am perfect or better than anyone else hahah, I just tend to think, rethink, and over think things), they would be able to see things more clearly. Their blurry vision would be gone and they'd see in a different light. If everyone just (claims to) thinks happily about everything or sadly about everything, well then, what's the point of even anticipating anything, just go sit in a windowless room and count dust. (No don't do this, it would get very lonely and boring for you). So go out there and be more real! Keep in mind, we're all still keeping our heads up and keeping our lives stress free. :]

*All definitions from dictionary.com