Pessimism

The advantage of being a pessimist is that you are either proven right or you are pleasantly surprised.

How would one situation be different from the other?
Well I sure can talk about the later i.e. being 'pleasantly surprised', because that is what I have just undergone.

Some outcomes of pessimism leading to a pleasant surprise:

• You are very happy...but obvious!!
• You tend to become superstitious about being pessimistic, in order to get the desired outcome...I am not too sure how well that would work in the long run though!!
• Your planning goes a little haywire...you were planning some things based on a conservative outcome...suddenly you have the unexpected result..and of course you dont have a gameplan to handle it...
• You feel a little stupid..."why did i think the otherwise in the first place??..this was obviously gonna happen"...yes of course!...the typical hindsight feeling of folly!!
• Even the trite begins to look exceptional...there are degrees of being pleasantly surprised...just because you were in a essimistic state you undermined the worth of the outcome or else there could have been much more that you could have got.

All in all, being pessimistic has its own upsides...