Friday, February 19, 2010

Optimists may live longer, but life's so much more satisfying being miserable all the time


It may well be, as research published yesterday had it, that optimists are less likely to get heart disease. Apparently if you are brimming over with joy and happiness you are less likely to suffer a heart attack or angina, because you get less stressed.
But better health must be small consolation to optimists when, throughout their lives, they are always suffering from disappointments and let-downs. Whereas for a pessimist, if a nice thing happens, it is a glorious surprise.
Pessimists are realists. They have more understanding about the world and its contradictions. They refuse to be up in the clouds. By ROGER LEWIS

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