Are Filipinos Pessimistic

[mazdamazda]

What do you think?

[ILuvDetailing]

With all the bad news... who can blame us?

[baurtwellXUV]

-mazdamazda-

pessimistic about what bro?! in all things... siguro oo....

[2004lynxghia]

hhhmm..as in di ko kaya 'yan..pede umandar itong imbento ko pero baka sumabog, eh..ay daming puti nag-iinterview doon na lang ako sa kabila aaplay..

in short walang tiwala sa sarili..ganon ba..?!

dami ngang ganyan satin..

[badkuk]

maybe when it comes to opinions about the "government", pero all other things, no. in fact i'm amazed at how some people can still put up a smile despite all the crap happening in their lives.

[1D4LV]

generally, i think filipinos are optimists..... but i agree with ILD, the filipinos now are going to the opposite. madami ng nawawalan ng pag-asa, madami ng umaalis ng bansa.... tsk-tsk-tsk.

[FrankDrebin]

maybe when it comes to opinions about the "government", pero all other things, no. in fact i'm amazed at how some people can still put up a smile despite all the crap happening in their lives.

Korek!

[nicolodeon]

Sa tingin ko hindi. Marami na akong nakilala sa mga liblib na lugar sa 'Pinas dahil sa work ko. Kahit hirap at hikahos sa buhay, palagi pa ring mga nakangiti at may walang-hanggang positibong pag-asa sa puso. Minsan nga, napapaisip ako: ano ba nirerelkamo ko, eh etong mga mas kaunti ang mayroon kaysa sa 'kin, umaasa? Ako pa kaya?

[badkuk]

i'd like to think of myself as a pessimist, but i have suspicions that i am a closet optimist B)

actually, when you think about it, you really don't have a choice *but* to be optimistic. if people were pessimistic, nothing would happen since you'd be mentally, psychologically, emotionally defeated before the first punch had been thrown.

pessimists are more like those bystanders that cheer *or* jeer while watching other people play the game. on any given day players may lose or they may win. those who stay at the sidelines all their lives will always be losers, coz they never really tried.


sabi nga sa Heart and Souls:

"No offense, Harrison, but you died a failure because you never tried."



if people were truly, truly pessimists, then there would'nt be much sense going on with one's life -- you'd feel that you're better off putting a bullet in your head to "get it over with". :p

imho lang po ;)

[BlueGirl]

i think yes...sa condition ng pinas ngayon feeling natin hindi na tayo makakabangon dahil sa matinding corruption ng government at iba pang reason...kaya nga yung iba gustong magmigrate sa US or canada...yung iba naman sa gustong makaalis kahit mag nursing or caregiver basta makaalis lang ng bansa natin...parents ko lang gustong gusto na umalis eh kasi daw wala ng asenso ang bansa na ito,palubog na daw...

[airshaq20]

In a way, most filipinos are...why? coz they are scared of big changes....

[Hero33]

Considering we are so poor yet we have been rated as the Happiest nation in Asia proves we are pretty optimistic.

Better than being in total despair.

[OTEP]

Personally, I'm not. I just don't know about the rest. Smile lang parati.

[Bogeyman]

Pessimistic?

I think Filipinos are more of fatalists, kasi uso yung expression natin na "bahala na"....ang Diyos, si Batman, etc. We are reactive to what's happening around us in the present, taking things as they come, instead of being more proactive in order to anticipate/plan for the things that are yet to occur.