Pessimism comes from a Latin word ‘Pessimus’, which is a mental state of an individual to think more about the negativities of life than positivity. It is more painful than exultant. Jack Cleary says that a pessimist is never disappointed. Yes it’s correct. Considering the person I have been, I humbly describe myself as a pessimist, it is better to see the thorns along with the rose than to simply worship the beauty of the rose and end up hurting yourself.
Our expectations are more than our capacities, it is not healthy to familiarize ourselves with our capacities instead of being optimistic and ending up protesting. Let’s take a clear example from scratch: an old Hindi movie called ‘mili’ came to an abrupt end. The finale only showed a plane taking off with a military on it for a medical cure. The rest was left for the reading audience. An optimist here would say that the girl would be saved from the dreaded disease that put her in a coup de grace, but is there any place, some human doctrine or one that gives her a guarantee of life? Isn’t it true to face reality instead of staying in utopia? This topic is a phrase from Marvin, the paranoid Android who is a fictional character from Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy series and we can find that the world has very few pessimists and probably the biggest pessimist is the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. .
It is not always true that hard work leads to success, but most of the time hard work does one thing that increases the level of hope and the feeling of achieving bigger goals, hard work acts like a shoe shine and we forget it when Even after hard work failures are formidable, so we are depressed. Optimism gives a new hope to win battles, but pessimism gives you a reason to be in the battle, when meeting defeat, a pessimist would not shatter because he never thought of winning, he only thought of being in that place, for another side, defeat could be torn apart. An optimist, even a victory can make a pessimist happy, but emerging as a victor, an optimist would feel of scholarly importance and dazzling qualities that could denigrate his performance or dedication to his work.
A person living in slums is optimistic that his future life will be flatulent, but to achieve this, he may not always use the straight path; You could turn to a thief and get your rich lifestyle just because your optimism gave you a new lease of life, but is that so? Right? A pessimist knowing that he was not born to be fed with a silver spoon tries very hard to work without thinking about its ramifications, for him playing the game of life is more important than winning. In Indian politics, for so many years, we have been optimistic about a conclusive Indo-Pak talks, but the stalemate is far from over. The Bhopal Gas tragedy took place in December 1984, but to date no definitive and conclusive evidence has been presented against the accused. Are we still optimistic? We are optimistic, but even then we say that “justice delayed is justice denied.”
Optimism and pessimism are a paradoxical situation and I, as an individual, would describe it in the words of the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci.
“I am pessimistic by intelligence, optimist by will.” I choose the intelligence to love.