Why are optimistic people the angriest and nastiest?
Optimism and Pessimism are the result of putting filters on our awareness, and thus both bias our mind with false impressions of reality. *Objectivity* is the way to go. Objective attention allows us to see what is REALLY there, and to work from that. Lying to yourself about how good or bad something is prevents one from making rational choices. Optimists, as you point out, when their denial structures falter, can become very upset and depressed because their coping mechanism for dealing with distress is gone, leaving them overwhelmed and feeling betrayed by the world. Pessimism, however, while it protects one from falling from the heights of hope, is a terrible state to be in for its own reasons; –that is, it prevents people from benefiting from genuinely positive opportunities. Further. . . We are in a significant way the authors of our own experience. If you believe that everything is bad, then that is the same as asking the Universe to show itself as being bad. The Universe always
