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Pessimism
Life.
Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes good things happen to you, sometimes bad things do. However, most of us tend to be overly pessimistic about the bad things. Just look at the following quotes, they exemplify what I've seen in my nineteen years of existence (For personal reasons, I will not reveal the person whom I saw using it)
1. Death is the ultimate equaliser
2. Shit happens
3. I am amazed at my ability to permutate endless possibilities amongst impossibilities of what could go wrong.
4. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong
Correct me if you must, but the above quotes epitomise pessismism and exude that familiar aura of dissatisfaction. It is true, one can never truly be satisfied. I can never be satisfied because life does not satisfy your desires. Desire is eternal. A good and basic example of it would be thirst. You can never quench your thirst permanently; it does not mean that the cup of water you had five minutes ago is going to permanently rid you of your thirst of water. Some of you may argue with me over this, some of you may even find it pointless to dispute over nature. But winning this argument will not satiate your innermost desire to debate on another topic.
So what exactly am I saying?
All I'm saying is that our pessismism over our lives is directly linked and proportionate to our level of satisfaction during that current moment. And since permanent and lifelong satisfaction is a myth, we can never rid ourselves of pessismism no matter how hard we try. Now, isn't that pessimistic?
Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes good things happen to you, sometimes bad things do. However, most of us tend to be overly pessimistic about the bad things. Just look at the following quotes, they exemplify what I've seen in my nineteen years of existence (For personal reasons, I will not reveal the person whom I saw using it)
1. Death is the ultimate equaliser
2. Shit happens
3. I am amazed at my ability to permutate endless possibilities amongst impossibilities of what could go wrong.
4. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong
Correct me if you must, but the above quotes epitomise pessismism and exude that familiar aura of dissatisfaction. It is true, one can never truly be satisfied. I can never be satisfied because life does not satisfy your desires. Desire is eternal. A good and basic example of it would be thirst. You can never quench your thirst permanently; it does not mean that the cup of water you had five minutes ago is going to permanently rid you of your thirst of water. Some of you may argue with me over this, some of you may even find it pointless to dispute over nature. But winning this argument will not satiate your innermost desire to debate on another topic.
So what exactly am I saying?
All I'm saying is that our pessismism over our lives is directly linked and proportionate to our level of satisfaction during that current moment. And since permanent and lifelong satisfaction is a myth, we can never rid ourselves of pessismism no matter how hard we try. Now, isn't that pessimistic?
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