¿El pesimismo es el verdadero optimismo?
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I recently read a post by Blocktrades (witness n° 1) where he expressed some of his ideas about pessimism, optimism and realism, and devoted some lines to proposing a reflection with openness to debate, if you want to read his post just click here. I must confess that I could not resist the idea of writing about it, and although I left a comment on his post, I wanted to express a little more about the ideas that his reading inspired me.
Brevemente pensaba con que me identifico más, si con el optimismo, con el pesimismo o el realismo. Pareciera que entre ellos son excluyentes, que si se es optimista no se puede ser pesimista o viceversa. Pienso que no es algo realmente tan rígido. Pienso que podemos ser a la vez realistas y optimistas, o realistas y pesimistas, o incluso para unas cosas podemos ser pesimistas, pero para otras ser muy optimista.
No son excluyentes entre sí, a veces las cosas no son tan lineales, muy a menudo las cosas, las ideas, los conceptos tienen sus matices. Me gusta la imagen de claro de bosque acuñada por María Zambrano, porque el claro del bosque es un intermedio entre la luz y la oscuridad, es un lugar tenue y a veces, las ideas o planteamientos son así.
Personalmente por mucho tiempo creí ser realista, aunque realmente fui muy optimista, al punto de pensar que el pesimismo no era del todo propicio o loable. Pero, de un tiempo para acá a medida de que me introducía en lecturas filosóficas e iba comprendiendo mi mundo desde esa óptica a medida de lo posible, me fui convirtiendo en un pesimista, con momentos realistas y muy breves episodios de optimismo.
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I was briefly thinking about which one I identify myself with more, if it's with optimism, with pessimism or realism. It seems like they're exclusive from each other, that if you're optimistic you can't be pessimistic or vice versa. I think it's not really that rigid. I think we can be realistic and optimistic at the same time, or realistic and pessimistic, or even for some things we can be pessimistic but for others be very optimistic.
They're not exclusive from each other, sometimes things aren't that linear, very often things, ideas, concepts have their nuances. I like the image of the clearing in the woods coined by María Zambrano, because the clearing in the woods is an intermediary between light and darkness, it's a tenuous place and sometimes, ideas or approaches are like that.
Personally, for a long time I thought I was realistic, even though I was really optimistic, to the point of thinking that pessimism wasn't entirely conducive or praiseworthy. But, for some time now, as I was introduced to philosophical readings and was understanding my world from that perspective as much as possible, I became a pessimist, with realistic moments and very brief episodes of optimism.
Luego, escuche que alguien pesimista era realmente una persona optimista, y eso me hizo reflexionar, de hecho, más de lo que imaginé. La pregunta que rondaba en mi cabeza era ¿Cómo alguien pesimista podría ser realmente optimista?
Así que voy a mencionar brevemente como pensé:
Alguien realista es una persona que entiende el mundo tal como se presenta, intentando habitar en el fluyendo con las cosas tal cual son. Por otro lado el optimista se comporta diferente, no es que procuré entender el mundo como se presenta, sino, que siempre está conforme con el mundo, ya que posee una predisposición a aceptar las cosas tal como son y pensar que son perfectas tal cual suceden.
Ahora bien, de la persona pesimista debemos decir que es una persona que está inconforme con el mundo, que entiende las cosas como son y le parecen imperfectas o las desea diferente. Podemos decir que tiene un dese de mejorar las cosas, las situaciones, entiende que pueden ser un poco mejor.
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Then, I heard that a pessimist was actually a real optimist, and that made me reflect, in fact, more than I imagined. The question that was going through my head was How could a pessimist actually be an optimist?
So I'll mention briefly how I thought:
A realist is a person who understands the world as it is presented, trying to live in it flowing with things as they are. On the other hand, the optimist behaves differently, it is not that he tries to understand the world as it is presented, but that he is always in agreement with the world, since he has a predisposition to accept things as they are and think that they are perfect as they happen.
Now, of the pessimist we must say that he is a person who is dissatisfied with the world, who understands things as they are and they seem imperfect to him or he wants them different. We can say that he has a desire to improve things, the situations, he understands that they can be a little better.
En otras palabras, el deseo de mejorar que posea el pesimista me parece un verdadero optimismo, porque, entiende que las cosas pueden salir mejor, y un pesimista con temperamento sabrá que debe actuar para que ello suceda. Es decir, considero hay un pesimismo pasivo y uno activo. El pasivo puede tender a estar deprimido, el activo entiende o pretende entender que la depresión puede estancar y que eso significa que las cosas quedarán igual. El pesimista desea que todo mejore. Aunque a veces las cosas pueden estar bien, el pesimista las pensará mejorable.
Es por ello que pienso que en cierto sentido el pesimista es un verdadero optimista. Y en ese sentido me considero pesimista con respeto a muchas cosas.
Ahora bien, ¿tú qué piensas? ¿El pesimista es optimista? O no funciona así. Espero tu comentario estimado lector.
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In other words, the desire to improve that the pessimist has seems to me a true optimism, because he understands that things can get better, and a pessimist with a temperament will know that he must act for this to happen. That is, I consider there to be a passive and an active pessimism. The passive can tend to be depressed, the active understands or pretends to understand that depression can stagnate and that this means that things will stay the same. The pessimist wants everything to get better. Although sometimes things can be good, the pessimist will think them improvable.
That is why I think that in a certain sense the pessimist is a true optimist. And in that sense I consider myself a pessimist with respect to many things.
Now then, what do you think? Is the pessimist optimistic? Or does it not work that way. I hope for your esteemed reader's comment.
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