You may disagree about my pessimism but I think that it is entirely realistic.
I've often been called negative/a pessimist, but I prefer to call myself a realist, and I'm saddened by the (what I perceive to be) huge percentage of people who are simply unable to deal with reality.
(My paraphrase: The true lesson of history is that man is the only animal on the face of the planet that is so dumb it never learns a lesson.)
