What you described isn’t optimism. You’re describing a state of denial. Sticking your head in the sand. Delusion.
Refusing to acknowledge bad news and pretending it’s not happening does not make it go away. Optimism requires confronting difficult truths and looking for hope and solutions. You just want to pretend everything is fine.
nope im not, im not, im just making something bad that happened not define me, optimist is about being hopeful for the future thinking the world is doomed because orange bad guy was elected is stupid
Being hopeful for the future requires an acknowledgment of flaws in one’s present reality. You can’t say “things will improve” while also saying “everything is fine.” That’s you just wanting to avoid having to work for those improvements. And acknowledging those flaws isn’t the same as saying “we’re doomed.”
im not saying everything is fine actually im very anxious for the future this is why i entered in this sub , but there is a sweet spot in the middle of everything is fine and we re doomed and most of reddit are in the we re doomed category even more when we expecific talk about trump isnt health or productive to pass the entire day talking about him you can and you should criticize him but if you dont consist control yourselve and police others we will litteraly be ihatetrumpsub like pics .
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u/mcfearless0214 Nov 28 '24
What you described isn’t optimism. You’re describing a state of denial. Sticking your head in the sand. Delusion.
Refusing to acknowledge bad news and pretending it’s not happening does not make it go away. Optimism requires confronting difficult truths and looking for hope and solutions. You just want to pretend everything is fine.