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Hi there. ;)
Been a while. I intend to make up for it by describing optimism and pessimism.
When I was younger, I was aweful and full of scorn for anything resembling optimism. I figured the only way to maintain such a consistantly positive perception (read: synapse by which we interact with everything but that which is at it's core, us) was to be straight up delusional. Surely one must deny in the face of irrefutable evidence the ills of the world in order to maintain optamism.
So then you have the classic cynic. The person who logically believes that anyone who is consistantly happy is either an idiot, incapable of understanding the hard truths of life, or deluded- incapable of putting those truths in any justifiable context.
It makes a solid and easily defended final position for the progression of a person in regards to their outlook.
And now I am an optimist. Wtf? Where did I skip a beat? How did I loose such a solid fortress of intellect?
Call me crazy. ;)
Cynacism is naieve. No matter how well documented and unasailable the logic of knowing the myriad ways one's enviornment displays malevolence, there is no gain. Cynacism is a defense to prevent a swift defeat. It has no mechanism for victory, no mechanism for even longterm gain.
These days I consider myself an informed optamist. I believe I understand the horrible things that my enviornment could inflict on me, but I also don't permit those understandings to limit my gaze to the dangers and losses and poisonous moments I have experienced, or have heard tell or speculated could well be experienced.
I see them, I know them. I also know they don't deserve a feeding of my soul's fears of them.
A nod of respect is their due. Though once past, they are no longer a voice of influence.
Alright. That is the informed part of the label.
Now. Optamist. An optamist is seer, a person who can see the future. An optamist decides on their path in the firm belief that that path will take them where they intend to go. Don't hate me for pointing it out, but one so close to never that it may as well be never arrives exactly where they expected to be.
An optamist, however, will not let the discrepancy between their original intention and the outcome stop them from using the exact same method to dictate their actions.
So if the optamist understands the circumstances of this imperfect travel, more course corrections during each leg of the journey become more apparent.
So if one can develop the comprehension of their actions and their consequences, and not let that comprehension shy them away from choosing a course, one can navigate the wilderness of our potential far more significantly.
Been a while. I intend to make up for it by describing optimism and pessimism.
When I was younger, I was aweful and full of scorn for anything resembling optimism. I figured the only way to maintain such a consistantly positive perception (read: synapse by which we interact with everything but that which is at it's core, us) was to be straight up delusional. Surely one must deny in the face of irrefutable evidence the ills of the world in order to maintain optamism.
So then you have the classic cynic. The person who logically believes that anyone who is consistantly happy is either an idiot, incapable of understanding the hard truths of life, or deluded- incapable of putting those truths in any justifiable context.
It makes a solid and easily defended final position for the progression of a person in regards to their outlook.
And now I am an optimist. Wtf? Where did I skip a beat? How did I loose such a solid fortress of intellect?
Call me crazy. ;)
Cynacism is naieve. No matter how well documented and unasailable the logic of knowing the myriad ways one's enviornment displays malevolence, there is no gain. Cynacism is a defense to prevent a swift defeat. It has no mechanism for victory, no mechanism for even longterm gain.
These days I consider myself an informed optamist. I believe I understand the horrible things that my enviornment could inflict on me, but I also don't permit those understandings to limit my gaze to the dangers and losses and poisonous moments I have experienced, or have heard tell or speculated could well be experienced.
I see them, I know them. I also know they don't deserve a feeding of my soul's fears of them.
A nod of respect is their due. Though once past, they are no longer a voice of influence.
Alright. That is the informed part of the label.
Now. Optamist. An optamist is seer, a person who can see the future. An optamist decides on their path in the firm belief that that path will take them where they intend to go. Don't hate me for pointing it out, but one so close to never that it may as well be never arrives exactly where they expected to be.
An optamist, however, will not let the discrepancy between their original intention and the outcome stop them from using the exact same method to dictate their actions.
So if the optamist understands the circumstances of this imperfect travel, more course corrections during each leg of the journey become more apparent.
So if one can develop the comprehension of their actions and their consequences, and not let that comprehension shy them away from choosing a course, one can navigate the wilderness of our potential far more significantly.