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Are You a Pessimist or an Optimist?
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Agusia



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 8:34 am    Post subject: Are You a Pessimist or an Optimist? Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I guess I am an optimist Very Happy very typical Wink
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm idealist
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RedRose



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
admiral wrote:
I'm idealist


Boy, I think you are too yong to define yourself.

Now maybe you are kinda idealistic. but I think, at your age, most people are idealists.

I guess you would become a perfectionist in the future.
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Bob S.



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Idealism is good in the young. They still have the energy to do the work necessary to try and make the world a better place.

I'm more of a realist flavored with the bitter spice of cynicism and the heavy cream of laziness. Confused
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RedRose



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bob S. wrote:
Idealism is good in the young. They still have the energy to do the work necessary to try and make the world a better place.

I'm more of a realist aof cynicism and the heavy cream of laziness. Confused


and that's why you always drive girls crazy!! Exclamation Very Happy
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Hayde



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I tend to be an optimist. I just remember every morning that my life is 100 times better than atleast 5 billion people Smile How can I not love life.
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RedRose



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hayde wrote:
I tend to be an optimist. I just remember every morning that my life is 100 times better than atleast 5 billion people Smile How can I not love life.


But a pessimist would say:"my life is 100 times better than at least 5 billion people Smile How can I love life? what about those poor people?" Wink
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Hayde



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I could never see life that way. If I don't love life, I am wasting it and all the opportunities I had, which I think is wrong. Should I not have gone to university because 5 billion people aren't able to? If I hadn't, then I would not have been able to help people as much as I could have had I gone to university.
Ofcourse I always try to help any way I can (and that does not mean only giving money, something a lot of westerners are doing now to feel good about themselves without actually doing any work)
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RedRose



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hayde, are you a Canadian guy? and you teach English in Karea?

I am just curious.
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Hayde



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi, yes, I am British/Canadian and I currently teach English in Korea, though I also taught in Canada, Japan, and China. Why Smile
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RedRose



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hayde wrote:
Hi, yes, I am British/Canadian and I currently teach English in Korea, though I also taught in Canada, Japan, and China. Why Smile


I hope I can become your student, and that way I can get to drive you crazy Exclamation
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Hayde



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why would you want to drive me crazy Laughing
Plus, who says I am not already ...
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RedRose



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hayde wrote:
Why would you want to drive me crazy Laughing
Plus, who says I am not already ...


I know you are unavailable. but that dosen't matter. because I enjoy driving people crazy Razz
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Hayde



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
But on a different note, when I was growing up, my family was a "foster family". My parents took care of many children who couldn't live in heir homes anymore. Sometimes children would come and live at our house for 1 week, sometimes 1 year, 2 children stayed for 8 years until they were 19. BTW, foster homes are not all bad like stupid Hollywood always shows in the movies.
So, I had to share my room with many children. Usually their parents were bad, lazy, or stupid. Not always, but on the most part. We had two children come to our house one time...
One was 6 years old and one was 5. They could not talk, only bark (like a dog). They lived in a small cabin in the forest with 20 dogs. They use to sleep in dog poop. They had lice and other things too. They had never been to school and they were also sexually abused. That is just one story of some of the things I have seen. How can I not wake up everyday and say "Life is good" after seeing and living with stories like that.
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