October 18, 2006
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I have found the test to determine whether a person is an optimist or a realist.
Roaming around public places I’m sure many people other than myself may have upon accident and while walking spotted a candy wrapper lying some ways away on the ground. From the angle of view it seems that the candy wrapper has not yet been opened and holds a tasty treat waiting inside. What a find! But alas, over the years I have time upon time learned only after picking up the wrapper that I was deceived; the candy had already been opened and eaten! It only seemed like it was still there.
And there is your test. An optomist will continue to believe in the chance of a piece of candy luckily having been dropped by some small child, unfound by any other pedestrian yet. On the other hand the realist will stride by, and scoff at the ostensibly full wrapper, realizing the Truth.
Which are you?
Comments (10)
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well Phil I am an optimist…however I have grown past my childhood state to realize that even if there is candy laying on the ground it could be dirty so I wouldn’t eat it, and you don’t eat candy so you wouldn’t eat it, so I’m afraid there are profound flaws in your optimistic theory!
I’m the one who realizes that every piece of candy I find that someone else apparently hasn’t found has been run over and the contents are either shattered or smashed. That, coupled with the fact that I’m not really much of a candy person myself, means I generally pick it up and offer it to some poor, innocent bystander.
Realistic Optimist……..I’d just go buy my own candy. woot
candy on the ground isn’t safe, it isn’t clean…
and you don’t eat candy!
I pick up the wrapper and throw it in the garbage.
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does picking up the wrapper just to throw it away have anything to do with it?
I dont like littering, by nature.
What if you don’t like candy?
more of a realist