The Wonders of Pessimism

I am one of the most pessimistic persons you will ever meet. Amid the negative associations one can derive from the word "pessimism", it had already worked wonders for me. In fact I've become too good at it I started to develop my very own ESP for negative events. Yes! I am the psychic you wouldn't want to hear predictions from. My experience vary from various events such as hold ups (held ups?), snatchings and other malicious intentions, which makes me a flexible casualty alarm. This gift has actually benefited for me since this allows me to flee at once when negative vibes start crawling over me. Should my predictions materialize, I could always dwell on the fact that I sensed it beforehand, had an insight on what to expect, consequently lessening the pain of loss.

Living in constant worry allows us to have a reason for our compulsion of employing all means to ensure that everything is going well. It allows us to face reality and act upon it.We do not allow ourselves, and others to be submerged in our own perfect hallucinations. We do not say, "Okay lang yan may next time pa naman" when someone flunks an exam rather, we slap you with the bile-purging reality by saying "Ikaw kase di ka nagaral. bawi ka na lang next time."



I, and my thesis group, recently experienced a failure. We flunked at something very important and from all over the place tons of messages such as "Do not view it as a failure.Take it as a challenge" and "There's always a next time" flooded my ears. Let me just say, I do not want any failure or a next time. Probably it does help for others but it may completely be not effective to pessimists. A failure is a failure and you are not doing any good by using euphemisms. What matters is how a person would react to these. Being a pessimist doesn't equate you to being hopeless.

There is no room for chance and optimistic assumptions in a pessimist's brain. Instead of relying on the wonders of optimism, we put our plans into reality. Optimism alone would not take you anywhere, so would pessimism, although it allows you to view what is already wrong giving you the chance to act upon it which is far better of than blinding yourself with positive vibes and rainbow thoughts.

Pessimists are necessary for development. They make discourse not only richer and accurate but makes it more fun, at times hilarious (Read: Miriam Santiago). No plan will perfectly follow a blueprint and its the pessimist's job to find the loophole. While the possibilities of being called a nut is high, we are actually doing them more good by saving them from ignorance and blank optimism.

Excuse me, I'm having ESP vibes again.