Have you ever met that person that goes “Oh, I’m a realist” and then basically say how he can just die any minute. That sort of happened to me one time.
A realist is “a person who accepts a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly.” But is that really what people think when they say they’re a realist?
I’ve considered myself to be an optimist for most of my life except for that short time a couple of years ago. I, most of the time, think that good will prevail so to say; that the best outcome is the one that’s going to occur – it’s just who I am by nature.
I was a realist myself
After watching “The Adventures of Tintin” (the one with the unicorn ship or something like that” I started calling myself a realist cause well Tintin was one and I wanted to be like him. It sort of felt like I was better than everybody else cause, well, they were debating whether they’re optimists or pessimists and I was, well, the next tep in human evolution – a REALIST. Some time passed though (not really that long) and I eventually, I stopped calling myself a realist because I didn’t want to be associated with the “so called realists”.
The “self-proclaimed realists”
It was just that most people who called themselves realists just seemed to be pessimists in disguise. It’s as if they were using the realism “philosophy” as a disguise to seem like they’re not downers and are in some way superior to pessimists or optimists (as did I, though I was little kid at the time so I’ll let that one slide).
Like for example saying you can’t make it in the acting business cause “there’s already too many actors” is called pessimism because of the 2 possible outcomes (not making it and making it) you chose the negative one.
I guess what I’m saying is that just because you’re a realist doesn’t mean you’re not an optimist or pessimist. And you can’t just call yourself a realist and pretend you’re better than the rest of the people.
TL DR: A lot of the time, self-proclaimed realists just use the philosophy of realism to disguise their pessimism.
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