How is your general outlook on life?

[Shawna]

This was asked by someone in the "ask the below user a question" thread, and I figured it was a good enough question to deserve its own thread, so I decided to take it upon myself to make it.

While my outlook on life is very mixed, I would say I probably lean more towards it being positive.

While there is a lot of horrible people and just things to worry about (which I rather not get into), life is filled with amazing things too. There are so many awesome TV shows, movies, and YT videos to watch...and there are so many amazing games to play, Animal Crossing being one of them.

Even if I partially feel worried about it, I do hope for an amazing future where I can spread awareness and kindness from doing what I love (writing). I want to try to better the world as a whole...I also want to meet my online besties in person if I can

 

[Midoriya]

My outlook on life is generally positive. There's a lot of negativity and bad things happening in the world, but they never once outweigh the positives for me to be honest. Some of what you mentioned is part of it, but the other part of it is that we have unlimited possibilities as humans. Being born with autism, I endured a lot of pain growing up due to exclusion, but I moved past it and am now to the point where I'm getting close to having a black belt in two different martial arts, and my body is becoming more muscular as well. Little me would have never thought I'd be able to be this social or strong, but that's life for ya.

 

[ali.di.magix]

Kinda changes between neutral and positive. Sometimes I think "it is what it is", other times it's more positive and enthusiastic. There are a lot of negative things in the world, but I choose not to dwell on them as a lot of it is far beyond my control and it's a waste of energy thinking about it. On the other hand, us humans as a species are incredibly fortunate to live the lives we do with limitless opportunities and adventures, and I'm grateful for that

 

[Neb]

I’m kinda in the middle where I think a lot of awful things happen in life, but there’s a lot of enjoyable things too. I think they kinda balance each other out and that most of the time everything is at a neutral point.

 

[wrenbow]

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[Suguri]

poof!

 

[VernalLapin]

I tend to be an optimist about life in general. My optimism and ability to find beauty in so many things is one of the traits I love most about myself. Society disappoints me a lot. But I know there are good people out there because I’m surrounded by them.

 

[nightglow]

Neutral. I practice to see things as they are even if I don't like it.
I don't feel like all is doomed and gloom either. It's just a matter of people making choices daily about many things. And there is always a choice. Even if you don't like the choices or the choices are hard. Beware of people who say ..."no choice"...

 

[ZeldaCrossing64]

Generally speaking, my outlook on life is pretty negative. Like, in a "everything sucks, but it is what it is" sort of way. I can be doubtful and cynical about a lot of things, and I tend to suspect the worst in people/things/situations. (I wouldn't say I have nihilistic views, but... There are also times where I just don't see anything celebratory or purposeful about certain aspects of life.)

It's not easy seeing the positives with how many things have gone wrong in humanity/society as a whole, but that's something I'd like to change. That being said, there are obviously some good things in life! But other things could be changed or improved, as well.

 

[TotodileStars]

I guess I'm neutral, for now.
I spent so much of my life having a very negative outlook, that I don't think it'll fully go away. But things have started to get better for me over the past several months, so despite my bad experiences being a pretty big part of why I am where I am, I don't feel as pessimistic as I used to.

It took a while for me to start seeing more of the positives again, but as things stand right now, I am getting there.

 

[mogyay]

in the morning it's positive and at night it's negative almost always

 

[Lancelot]

i voted neutral. It was quite negative for a little while, but things got better over the last year but I’ve started feeling quite apathetic towards it recently- not necessarily bad I guess

 

[Seastar]

Honestly I lean more towards negative since I'm in a terrible living situation I haven't been able to do anything about. I also feel like I keep learning more bad things about the world.
I voted other though because I don't believe I'm always negative? There are things I actually do enjoy. Life is just extremely difficult right now.
I also don't feel like neutral fits me.

 

[Envy]

I have a lot of value for life, my own and others. I am non-religious and don't believe in any kind of afterlife, so to me, life is very precious. It's a very short-term thing where we get to experience the universe and all of its beauties (and horrors, as well, unfortunately).

I'd say it's ultimately a positive thing to get to experience. However, I know that I come from a position of some privilege and I acknowledge that people living under other circumstances might think differently. I want everyone to be able to experience life at its best, where they are not hungry, where they have a good shelter over their head, where they're in good health, where they don't deal with any kind of abuse, where they don't face oppression, etc. The world is messed up and I feel like we could be doing a lot better. Life is so precious, no one, to the best of our abilities should be suffering and everyone should be able to enjoy and value their life.

I know SOME suffering is a part of life, and can't be avoided. But I'm talking about the much bigger issues that I think we can make better.

 

[SkyKnight03]

I try to find a smile or silver lining in things. The idea of the world being a kind place is no longer something I can carry. It can be quite cruel.

Yet, I would rather soar and befriend unfortunate circumstances rather than be consumed and victimized by it.

I have an optimistic outlook of the future. I can also find happiness in small things. I also have an uncanny ability to pick myself back up.

I genuinely think things will be okay. And I hope the same for those who have posted here.

 

[Yoshi155]

Mostly positive. I feel like that sounds kind of… cringe coming from a high schooler, especially if I actually said that at school. There’s a lot of times (at least half of it is every time I go to school) when I feel like there’s no hope for anything, there will never be hope for anything, and an asteroid or something should just destroy the planet, but I feel like there’s enough things to be happy about to not feel that way all the time. I don’t know, maybe something will happen someday, maybe soon, that will make me turn completely cynical, but that hasn’t happened yet, so for now I look at life positively.

 

[kisaker39]

it depends if you mean the concept of life itself or my life. it is easy to become biased on the concept of life because of your own personal experiences, wether it be positive or negative. anyhow, my view on my own life and experiences as well as life itself are both rather negative.

as cruel as i consider life, there are so many enjoyable things in life. such as cheesecake.

 

[Chris]

Positive to the point my optimism annoys people. I say yes to every opportunity and always do my best to twist negatives into positives.

It takes a lot to get me down for any significant length of time. I have the power to sleep off almost anything.

 

[Croconaw]

My outlook used to be generally positive, but I was told by someone that there's a difference between being positive and being stupid. I never got that comment out of my head, so I try to be more realistic now. I still try to be a positive person, but it hasn't been the same since hearing the aforementioned comment.

 

[ShawnFuzz]

I voted "other" because the word I would choose is "skeptical".

From my experience, everyone I know during my growing up years is negative. Whether we come from an abusive home, or just don't get along with other people in school. Life is abysmal.

However, I turned very positive once I became my own person. I met many great people. But it took me a while to realize that I was being taken advantage of, pretty regularly.

I say "skeptical" because I realize there are those who hurt, and those who are truly loving. I didn't choose "neutral", because I feel like I am everywhere at once at all times, and I never know who to trust, regardless of how I feel at any given moment.