If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed
“If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
I'm a pessimist.
My mom always gets on my case for a lot of things such as not being optimistic, not smiling enough, for not looking at the bright side.
My mom always gets on my case for a lot of things such as not being optimistic, not smiling enough, for not looking at the bright side.
But how can I look at
the bright side when there isn't one?
She always looks at
me with this one frustrated face when she asks me, "How do you think you
did on the test?" and I respond with, "I don't know, probably a
fifty."
She yells at me to
aim higher and I just stay silent because I don't want to aim higher as if I do
and I fail, I’ll be disappointed, but if I aim low, I will reach my goals and avoid
disappointment. I gain more satisfaction from aiming low, such as thinking I
got a fifty on a test and finding out I got a hundred. It makes me content and
I don't know what's wrong with that.
If you ask my mom, a
lot of things are wrong with me.
My mom is under the
impression that I am bitter and in denial.
Which I am not.
I don't look at life
through rose-colored glasses. I just look at the bad side of things, I guess.
My mom laughs when
the phone rings and I say, "Probably one of those sales people." She
laughs when I tell her to look both ways before crossing the street or she'll
get run over. Or there was this one time in
middle school when I signed up for sign language classes in case they came in
handy one day, but then decided not to because it was no use since I wouldn't
learn anything anyway.
I don't know why I look
at the down side of things.
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