Cult.of.Personality

“What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could bring me joy?“

I try to be an optimistic and hopeful human being. It is hard to do so in a world that is full of negativity and pessimism. That is not the core of the challenge though. The main challenge I face with trying to be optimistic and hopeful is people telling me that I am naive and stupid for looking at the brighter side of life. What is so naive about being hopeful?

The logic I get from this whole situation is negativity and pessimism is equivalent to being reasonable. Does having a negative outlook on life really “fix” a problem. All of the people I know that are negative and pessimists are not really enjoyable human beings to be around. Negativity puts a downer on life. 

Now people can be naive when it comes to optimism. I like to categorize myself as a realistic optimist. I realize that bad things are going to happen and life isn’t going to be all sunshine and roses. That “life” will strike hard sometimes and you will have to learn how to deal with it. Instead of looking at tough situations as something that will only get worst or stay the same, I prefer to look at the situation as something that will get better. I realize and admit to that fact that I am in a hard situation, a situation that might seem really terrible, but instead of thinking it is only going to keep getting worst I look at it as something that is temporary. 

One of the philosophies I live my life by is if life can go from good to bad it can go from bad to good. Since your life doesn’t always stay good it can’t always stay bad. Everything that happens in life and you feel is temporary. So I ask again, why is me having this outlook on life considered naive? I don’t have completely unrealistic hopeful outcomes of life. Being a realistic optimistic means I don’t have unreasonable goals/outcomes of life. 

For an example I am not very good at math. So when  take a math class I go in with the realistic assumption that I could potentially get an B. I don’t go in thinking that I can get an A. I will try for an A, I will put in A work but since mathematical sciences is not my strong suit I am not going to expect to get an A and get my hopes up and if I don’t get an A become discouraged. 

So I am one that gets bored really easily and lose interest in many things. It is actually quite a burden, cause it feels like my mind is always constantly spinning in so many directions. 

This tumblr will be a collection of things that will cure boredom and other random things. The other random things will be just posts about music, T shows, movies, (etc.) to read when you are bored. 

To kick off this tumblr and first post I will give a simple way to cure boredom. Whenever I lose interest in something or go through one of my many “bored spells” I like create something. Nothing beats boredom than competency. Either it is creating a piece of artwork, a pinterest board, or even a new playlist on youtube. Doing something that makes you use your creative juices cancels boredom. Especially since you are really stoked about whatever you are creating. 

Something that I just love doing is going on Pinterest and creating a board about one of my favorite shows or creating a cover page for a board or whatever. I love designing. Also Pinterst isn’t just a waste of time, I have found it a good way to study for things. I have a few boards for my classes. 

Yeah, I am aware that this first blog post is kind of lame, but better and more interesting blogs are about to come soon! So stay tuned.