OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 48, 26 February 1929, Page 6

OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST.

A man of great common sense and experience once wittily remarked that to the optimist and pessimist "everything happens, even the good." i The worst of the optimist is that he invariahly takes his wishes for realities and quite loses •of the adverse contingencies which are alwavs liable to occur. The pessimist, on the other hand, deprives himself of the pleasure of anticipating ftappy events, and loses thereby much of the ptibtle joy of expectation. It is entirely a question ot temperament, and there is little pure reasoning in either attitude. Only a thoroughly level-headed person may be trusted to discriminate between those occasions where a sanguine view is justified or to be prepared for the worst, whilst hoping for the best. The* man who wears rose-coloured spectacles is deceiving himself equally with his neighbour, who through the medium of smoked see< only i dismal prospect. If it is a matter of choice. the com nionship of the optimist will perhaps he more penerally soupht than that of the n.j. r for cHeerfulne-s, even if overdone, i- ~till ni«.p-> bearable than & hypochondriacal outlook. i —MX