Schopenhauer's smile: overly optimistic people aren't just annoying.. pessimism may be good for us

Optimism can be a problem when we don’t feel optimistic. Schopenhauer can help. His pessimism might ironically make us feel better and be therapeutic for us.

[justincovert]

Didn't know I needed to hear this, thanks for the prospective

[seudonak]

The type of pessimism you're describing is just a form of weakness. It takes courage and strength to be optimistic in a broken world, but it's so rewarding to align your thoughts, emotions and actions to pull yourself out of bad times and really appreciate the good things. Then there's some pessimist eating junk food and wasting their time and money complaining about things, and you want to help them but only they can help themselves, because the root of their problems is their attitude and outlook. The pessimist says, "things are terrible, this is a bad as it gets". The optimist says, "things could be much worse".