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This post of mine is an inspired one. I read a piece on pessimism which my friend wrote and it got the wheels turning. (Btw I swear I did not know the spelling of pessimism till I read her post. See! I learnt something today)

Before I get to the real boring stuff,  Ill tell you all how to find out if the guy/gal next to you is a pessimist or not! Its a handy little trick, and you do not have to have a degree in philosophy, pessimisolophy or any word that ends with ophy!

Now how to perform the trick!

Props:
A glass (transparent would be perfect)
Water

Method:
1. Start pouring the water into the glass.
2. Continue pouring until half full...
3. Oh wait!
4.Continue pouring until half empty!

Well.. Im sure you figured out the rest by now! If you did not, I suggest you drink the water!

Pessimism is an attitude. And all of us have been pessimistic in our lives atleast once. Personally, I feel pessimistic atleast once or twice a day! Anyone who has not been so, is a zombie! Stay away from them.
My point, is that being pessimistic is not a bad thing. It is just being human.
But the moment you let pessimism become your way of life, you are in trouble.

Grapes are not sweet, sky is not blue, grass in not green and no matter what anyone says, today is not a good day!  


Life is like a sine wave(Curse you engineering!). You have ups and you have downs! When you know that you are going to go down, then you can as well enjoy the ride!

Weird meaningless story time:


Close your eyes, imagine you are part of the queue to a slide in a park. Your turn is next. You sit down at the edge of the slide, and then you let go! Wooosh!

You have an extremely bad landing! Thats the whole point! But atleast you came out of it screaming with joy and smiling as wide as you can.

You slowly realize that your butt hurts, real bad! You start to rub it and also look around at the people around you. There are a lot of people with sore butts and sour faces. Some of them are openly crying. You are about to join one of the above when something amazing happpens.

One person around you notices your smile and threatens to smash it in if you dont stop doing it. Wiping the grin of your face seems like a very bright thing to do!
But a second person also notices your smile(atleast whats left of it) and slowly but hesitantly a smile starts to form on his/her face!
Now thats weird! But you are not complaining. No you, you let the smiles grow until it metamorphoses into a laugh. Behold! There a more people joining you. Then all of you, laughing and hooting walk the way back to the ladder attached to the slide.

                                                                        The End

My friend (who wrote the initial piece on pessimism) also mentioned a solution to the problem.
Time.
Thats true though. Time does heal. Time does help you get over things. But there is only one one drawback.
For all those things to happen, it takes a lot of.... well.. time!
But we have that in short supply!

Only god can use time as medicine for pessimism!
'If you are the one who is causing me pain, sorrow and the many synonyms of sorrow and pain. And there is nothing I can do to you, then ill let time do all the work! ' 
'In a few years, youll be dead! And since im immortal, ill never die! So the jokes on you , cause' I got time on my side'


If you want it to rain but you are very very very sure that it wont, dont sit there drawing clouds in a piece of paper, go out and do the rain dance!