Hello friends of the Weekend-experiences community, I wish you a week full of positive things and good news for your lives. The topic I chose to write about in this post was Optimist or pessimist? which one are you and why?. It sounds strange but in the lowest moments of my life I have found within my own pessimism the strength to move forward and see the positive side of any situation including those that make me feel uncomfortable or that lead me to rethink my way of living life.
Optimistic or pessimistic? Which are you and why? Give examples.
Being pessimistic is something that is fed mainly by the environment in which you find yourself, it may even be copied from the people we love the most but who have this kind of thoughts where seeing the glass half empty is the only way to look at the situations in which life puts us. I feel that it is more learned than a product of a person's personality, for example, if a person is constantly told that life is difficult, that things cost, that if you do not suffer then you will not enjoy reaching the goals you have in mind and will not feel as if you have achieved something important.
The optimist on the other hand is that person who has the courage to recognize that things will not always go as planned, but that this does not mean that we should sit idly by and that this will define our life forever. It is that person who always seeks to see the best in any situation and chooses to learn from every process he or she goes through, even if some of them are very uncomfortable to live through. For me, to be an optimist is to think that things can improve but also to accompany it with actions that lead us to achieve what we propose, nothing is going to fall from the sky so we must at least give the best of us and if it does not go as we expected we will be left with the satisfaction of having done it and not be overcome by thoughts and fear of making mistakes.
I used to be an extremely pessimistic person, I saw everything in black or white, it was my way of facing life and it made me feel miserable to be honest, it is not something that makes you feel good in fact the only thing that pessimism does is that you go sinking little by little in a spiral of catastrophic thoughts and possible negative scenarios that probably will not happen but that the mind of a pessimistic person sees as a clear fact and not as something that has no importance. I complained too much and complaining is part of being a pessimist, it is okay to say what we feel and from time to time let the negative out of our mind but we can not stay in that spiral that has no end.
Today I am more optimistic although my mind often tells me that I am not the most capable person to achieve things, I have decided to ignore those ideas and put aside the fear of trying to do new things for fear of making mistakes, whenever you start a new project or dream we will always make mistakes and it is the most normal because we are human beings, what we should not do is punish ourselves with hurtful words and stay stagnant. Life is not always beautiful, it has moments when it is hard for us to breathe but it is worth thinking and acting so that our mind understands that we are worthy of good things, that we are important and that we are worth much more than we think.
I hope you liked this post, and I would also like you to leave me your comments; I will gladly read them and will respond to them. Big hugs. 🤗
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