Optimism

It is difficult to take everything with joy and happiness. The modern world doesn't allow people to keep good and positive view on the world. And there are only a few people who really take everything as positive events and things. And such people are called optimists.

Optimism is the view on the world from the positive point of view. Usually it is studied as the opposite of negative view on the world called pessimism. According to optimism the world is wonderful and there is the way out from any situation, the result will always be good and all people are kind and good by their nature.

A famous example of the optimism is the opinion of the person on the glass filled to the middle with water or another liquid. They say that the optimist would say that the glass is half full and the pessimist would say that the glass is half empty.

In philosophy optimism is connected with the name Leibniz who considered that we live in the best world of all possible.

The opposite term is pessimism that is the negative view on the world and people. And the greatest demonstration of pessimism is the thought of society of every period of human history that it lives in the worst epoch. And it is natural pessimism based on illusion and feeling of the negative trends of every epoch.

And there is also another term used frequently with terms "optimist" and "pessimist". This term is realist. Realist is the person who impartially takes the world and people. According to people they would like to be realists while the majority of people are pessimists. But it is hard to find the absolute pessimists, optimists or realists. Usually these three phenomena are combined and are reflected in different situations.