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I am a very pessimistic person and I can almost always find something wrong in everything.. I dont enjoy being pessimistic but im not sure how to stop it. Its automatic, I've tried to think positivly before and I can only do it for so long before im right back into thinking negitively. I want to be like those people who cherish everything and are always happy and laughing but Im not sure how.. I know there aren't like, step by step instructions to becoming optimistic but if anyone has any advice it would be appreciated.
Actually, in my quest class, I learned that you CAN control the way you think (glass half filled or half empty). You just have to try and look at things and think of the good qualities in it. I am a pessimist myself, working on becoming an optomist.
You can practice doing so by smiling more often, being friend and trying to become friends with new people, and go sight seeing and look at things that may be ugly and try looking at the beautiful or good things about that "ugly" thing.
Good luck.
I don't think you can force yourself to think a certain way. As a fellow pessimist, I tend to think the worst and surprise myself when the good possibility comes through. It is necessarily a bad thing to be pessimistic, you can surprise yourself and never really get your hopes up too much. If yo really want to be an optimist, just go through the options and look the bright side of thing, try to rule out "bad" outcomes of situations.
I cant think of a very good example but the only example I can think of is after my ex and I broke up I tried to think positively like "oh he's happier now" "we dont argue now" "im better off now" "I can be with my friends" "it wasn't meant to be" stuff like that but I would still get depressed. thats not a very good example but its all I can think of right now..
Ambrelove, can you describe more about what you mean when you say "I've tried to think positively before"? I mean, how did you go about it, with what results while you were doing it, and then how did you "lose" it?
be with positive persons and actually its an genetic property which cant be changed but you can make yourself better
visionary peoples always have an optimistic view of every thing. so being a visionary person can lead to optimism.
remember it just doesn't matter.
