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I'm mostly an optimist. It's just what I am! Optimistic=happier=more fun
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I go back and forth between the two, sometimes embracing both at the same time.

For example: Sometimes I'm so beaten down that I say "fuck it." I end up dragging myself out of it, for a more optimistic view.

However, my basic attitude is a bit of both. I don't think anything substantial or sustainable will happen (for the better), but I still go for it anyways.
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I can't lie, I'm generally more of a pessimist. But I like to think I could fall somewhere in a grey area between the two.
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Depends on my mood. After something bad happens, I'm pessimistic about it, but a day or two after I start to see the better side of things. It does fluctuate, though. For instance, I have a very pessimistic view of my computer right now, which is a year old, has Vista, and yesterday afternoon when I shut down it got stuck, because this morning I look, and it's frozen on the logging off screen, even though the "I'm doing something!" wheel was spinning. Sometimes, even if I restart it after, I can put in a disk to play a game, and it'll ask for permission to run the program, then not do anything for 15 minutes, then start the game. I can also bring up task manager during that time, but it'll be a messed up looking icon in the bottom right where current applications are shown, and won't be actually open in front of me.

On the other hand, once I upgrade my RAM, it should run a lot better. Yay!!!!1!!11!!!one.
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I think it probably depends on my mood and I can't objectively say which I am more of the time. But I try to be an optimist since I think that is really the better choice of the two.
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pessimistic i guess.
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I am a little bit of both. It's like in real life I like joking about and making silly lies for jokes. However online I will never ever tell a lie. I am not sure why. I am just a little weired.
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I'm optimistic.
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well i wont say I am always a optimist, I am a mixture of both, sometimes I feel optimistic and some times pessimistic. I think both should be there, just like positive and negative completes a circuit.
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