I refuse to use terms like 'optimist' or 'pessimist' and instead prefer 'realist.'

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.

Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives. Optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal worlds.

Right, I consider myself a Realist, but in philosophical terms, I am what's called a Pessimist.

Being a poet has brought me closer to reaity I am a optimist and a realist in all sense but there was never a room for pessimism.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.