Who to be? Pessimist or Optimist?

There are days when you ask yourself about the validity of remaining optimistic. Pessimism is the only option sometimes or as most people say there comes a time when reality starts bothering you. But reality is messy and so does the sadness. When we try to linger on things which we can’t control, we end up facing the reality, eventually sadness prevails and optimism fades away.

Sometimes when you wake up in the morning, you feel a lot of energy, a lot of positivity to start your day. Things, kind of, go the anticipated way and at the end of the day your optimism about life remains intact. You don’t feel that there is a harsh aspect to it as well. Although you know that life is a balance of joys and hardships yet you don’t want to think about the later. Optimism’s the winner in such days. But when you come home after a long day of struggle with no reward, and reward doesn’t really mean a materialistic thing rather it can simply be a smile of the beloved or some encouraging words from your employer or any kind of ‘good’ stuff, you start to think more about the hardship part and less about the joy element. This is a human in a nutshell. No matter how optimistic you’re or how great things are sorting out for you, one moment of distress is enough to burst your bubble of optimism.

One more thing, reality is not always harsh, sometimes reality is beautiful too. But most of the times it torments you.

The point is, optimism and pessimism go hand in hand. If you’re too much optimistic, you’re doing injustice to yourself or if you’re drowned in the deep ocean of pessimism you’re still wasting your energies for the wrong purpose. Reality is neither optimistic nor pessimistic; it is simply ever-changing and getting-out-of-control type of thing. Not saying that you need to surrender to it but you just can’t fight against it rather you can work it out. I heard it somewhere and it beautifully sums it up,

’ Remain pessimistically optimistic or optimistically pessimist ’.

P.S: This last line confuses me a lot though.