I am sure you have heard the verse runs like this:
" Twist optimist and pessimist
The Difference is doll
The optimist sees the doughnut
The pessimist, the hole
The longer, I live the more convinced I am of the truth of this
poem. life is like a doughnut, may seem full, rich, and enjoyable
or it may seem as empty as the hole in the middle. To pessimist
seems foolish, but who is foolish - The one who sees the doughnut
or The one who sees the hole?
Somebody else pointed out the difference between optimist and
pessimist this way: an optimist looks at an oyster and expects a pearl
pessimist look at an oyster and expects ptomaine poisoning. Even if
The pessimist is right, which I doubt, He probably, will not enjoy him self
either before or alter he proves it. But optimist is happy and enjoyable
because he always is expecting a pearl
Pessimist are easy to recognized. They are the ones who go ground
asking" What's good about it? when someone says "Good Morning." If
they would look around, they would see something good, as did the optimistic
merchant whose store was robbed. The day after the robbery a sympathetic
friend asked about the loss."loss much?" He wanted to know. Some, said
the merchant, but then it would have been worse if the robbers had got in the night
before. you see, yesterday I just finished marking everything down 20 percent.
Therefore, give in to optimist, Don't fight it remember the doughnut and as Elber Hubbard's advise:
As you travel on through life, Brother,
whatever be your goal,
keep your eye upon the doughnut
and not upon the hole
