Do you consider yourself to be a positive person or a negative person and why?

I’m a pessimist no doubt. I constantly worry about the worst case scenario.

Never, ever take life seriously!

Positive…except when angry.At those times I’m positive I’m negative….and alittle bit of a…not so delightful hair-pulling ,crabby-pants. ;)

Despite my name here, I’m a pretty upbeat, positive guy. Life is good. 99% of people are great. Anywhere I go I enjoy myself. If the odds are 50–50, I’ll always take the chance.
I like getting up in the morning, and I like going to bed at night.
I rarely get angry, depressed, or nervous.
Stupidly I picked my screen name during a 30 day period when I had a lot on my mind. It is misleading.

Really positive….
unless I’m being
Really negative….
Or somewhere in the middle

Can someone be both?
I feel like I can be very pessimistic about my own life and future, however other people are always telling me that they enjoy/appreciate my optimism. I think that I just always consider all possible outcomes and weigh the likelihood of what the conclusion will be based on the facts at hand. Maybe that is just being realistic.
I’m confused about your perspective on “kindness” in all of this. Do you think someone who has a tendency to worry about negative outcomes can not be kind? I’m not sure how the two are related.

+….. Because life’s so much better that way :¬)

I’m a positive person who expresses it realistically, which many people see as being negative. I’m a “hope for the best, prepare for the worst” kind of guy. I might look gloomy and pessimistic, but that’s because I’m preparing for the worst. I am trying to minimize my disappointment in case the wrong outcome should occur.

At lot of people will look at me and say, “You’ve got to think positively. If you don’t believe it, it won’t happen. You get back from life what you put out there.”

I fully hate not to succeed and I never intend to fail. If I think I will fail, I won’t bother to waste energy on it.

Another thing is that I don’t brag. Or even claim many capabilities for myself that I actually have. Sometimes I’ll deny it when someone points out that they think I’m good at this or that. Sometimes that comes from depression and low self-esteem, and sometimes that comes from a belief that I’m no better than anyone else, and so that means I need to not get full of myself.

I believe that it’s not about me. Nothing is about me. It’s about all of us. It’s about whoever I am interacting with at the time. It’s about all of us working collectively to create whatever it is we are creating. We’re all on the same team.

Because I believe that, the ideas of positive or negative outlooks somehow aren’t relevant. You can present yourself as happy and enthusiastic (which drives me nuts) or morose and defeatist (which makes me want to go somewhere else), but I’d much prefer a more matter-of-fact outlook. This is where we want to go; this is what stands between us and our goal; let’s get to work solving problems.

I’m a positive person, always.
I try to see the best in people, love life and always try to be helpful and pleasant with those around me.

I tend to be positive, I can be talked out of glumness fairly easily. If I don’t feel better about something in the morning, it’s serious and has to be dealt with.

Generally positive. I expect people will generally be straight with me until proven otherwise. I try to make my little part of the world a better place. Life gets me down sometimes but for the most parts its good.

I’m positive. BEcause I can’t stand negative people. At least not people who are negative for no reason. Like, my friend that I flew home with on Wednesday from Colorado to Pennsylvania kept commenting while we were at the airport, “Oh, wow, wish I was going to London.” “Oh, I wish I was on that flight to San Francisco”....JUST FUCKING GO THEN AND QUIT COMPLAINING. GOD DAMN.

whiny people and complainers drive me nuts as well.

I’m generally more positive, and no, that does not mean that I think “everything is rainbows and sunshine” but I don’t dwell on the negative and bring the people around me down. To me, being positive doesn’t mean I put sugar over everything and pretend things are okay when they’re not. To me, it’s a part of being realistic—looking at ways things can be improved and not giving up. I don’t know too many overly negative people, but the few I have known, I’ve wanted to be as far away from them as possible; it’s a good way to drive me away from someone.

I use this quote all the time, but: “The pessimist sees difficulties in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunities in every difficulty”.

Well…these days…with all the dumbass holiday parties, I feel like I’m a negative person…but generally, I think I’m neutral.

I see life as an adventure.

I am positive despite that I have an autistic son.
I never give up. I always look for away to make things work for my son and I work with him.

POSITIVE! I fully believe that if you do good things, good things will come to you. They may not be the things you wanted or expected, but they will come. Consequently, if I think good thoughts and have a positive out look on life, that will be returned to me. I am almost exclusively a positive thinker. Even in the worst situation, there is something positive to be found. I always seem to find the silver lining on the thunder head.

Positive. I always think I’ll eventually get what I want if I work at it, give most people the benefit of a doubt (even when I probably shouldn’t), rarely am I sick or physically exhausted even though I work like crazy.

It depends on my mood but I would say I’m a realist. I do try to be positive but sometimes in certain situations being positive can be futile. Sometimes my “negative” side helped me in many situations and even saved my life on a few occasions. I prefer a healthy dose of both but in general I do try to be positive.

@Paradox I can see what you are saying about being realistic. I have been accused of being negative a few times in my life when I felt totally positive, but also very realistic. I think sometimes people think if you say “no” you must be negative. But in my mind telling a kid “no-you can’t run out in the street” is a positive, realistic thing, no matter how badly they want to run out in the street. I don’t think being realistic necessarily has anything to do with being negative.

Despite coming across as fairly pessimistic, several tests show that I’m true neutral.

I believe in temporary setbacks only.