Dismal Hopefulness

A pessimist is a person who looks at the dark side of things and a optimist looks on the light side of things. People are either described as a half glass empty or full kind of people. Pessimist tend to think they are right that the world is going to hell in a hand basket and there is no need for hope. I don't know why pessimist think that there stance is so realistic but it's probably because optimistism seem so unrealistic. Everything is not sunny...who knows if it will all be okay..it might just end up badly? 

Today someone ask me what my world view was in relation to this. Actually they said "you seem to think that the world is sad, that everything is sad" 

The actual answer to how I view the world is an oxymoron..it's paradoxical but I think that most true and good things in life are paradoxical in nature(Godhead, three in one.. explain that without paradox) So my anwer to how I view the world is I have a dismal hopefulness. Darkness and bleakness are part of the picture but there is hope in every situation, in every relationship and in every story. The sky is not falling but there is not rainbows and butterfly all the time either. I think living in one of those two boxes of pessimist or optimist is not realistic at all. 

Simple Truth: A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else