What are Rose-Colored Glasses?
If you’ll permit me to smash two idioms together shamelessly, what a cockeyed optimist really needs is a pair of rose-colored glasses. Both idioms suggest the same basic premise, that a perpetual optimist may not be viewing the world very realistically. By wearing rose-colored glasses, a person’s grasp of a situation or circumstance would be unnaturally filtered or soft-pedaled. While a more optimistic worldview is not a bad idea in itself, deliberately failing to acknowledge unpleasant or negative aspects of the human experience can be a form of delusion or denial.
