a optimist will die sooner... then a pessimist ...


what do you think about that ... some say anger keeps you alive longer ... they did a study and it showed pessimist stayed alive longer ... no ...I do not believe every thing hear or off the internet lol

your thoughts ...

strange i always hear that the laughter prolongs life

what I Do know is stress is the real bad one, anger may make you live longer,but it can cause your death much quicker also ,lose your temper and do something stupid!

What I think is that as soon as it reads "an optimist/pessimist will never die, but a pessimist/optimist is guaranteed to die," that it doesn't really matter.

It's not a contest.

And being an optimist or a pessimist doesn't guarantee any one person a longer life than any other individual, or group.

If you as an individual were a statistic rather than an individual it might matter.

Of course, the good always die young and nasty, crabby and mean live forever.

Oh, and...

It's like Lewis Black once said "The good die young, but pricks live forever", so next time you see a kid, run out your front door and say "get out of here you little $h!t" and it will be like taking vitamins.

I think life is unpredictable, optimists and pessimists both die in accidents so who really knows. Some people function better with negativity, myself I work better with optimism.

how do you stay optimistic all the time ... how do people do that ... I think of some pretty positive people ... but how do they keep that calmness going all the time ... and I really admire them for it becouse I just can not do that all the time ... I guess it is how one lives their live and evolves from their environment ...

I think that it just seems like pessimists live longer, because they never shut up.

who wants to live longer when they hate life? how awful

journalists always misreport these studies.

It would've concluded, some degree of cyclic periods of mild stress among the general euphoria that is the working class life, actually lowers risk of heart attack, some cancers, severity of other ailments, etc.
And that would be because biological machines need maintenance too, and more than just clock on and clock off work schedules, they require diversity and variation in order to continue functioning at optimum performance.

So the authors would've surmised that people who're ready with a cynical remark at the drop of a hat, although quite happy go lucky most of the day, generally display a healthier psychological lifestyle than someone who has so much constant euphoria, you porn on their iphone, euphoria pills, euphoria energy drinks, and they're always so happy happy happy that if you ran over their dog they'd pay the damages just feeling so relieved you're not hurt, they. Die. Young.

Think it has a lot to do with inner strength. But doesn't mean that you're calm all the time. Just that you bounce back and recover fast, because of your optimistic nature. It also requires being realistic, well grounded, lest you don't get an unrealistic view of things. One of the pitfalls of being (too) positive.
I think it has a lot to do with having faith, being able to see the bigger picture of things, good and bad, and inner strength.

I think if anything prolongs life it is balance...

Especially if you ride a bike a lot.

(I've heard sarcasm and bad puns prolong life.)

some say anger keeps you alive longer ...

your thoughts ...


I think anger makes someone older... This is odd.

I would rather die sooner being an optimist than live longer as a pessimist

thanks kic ... interesting read ...

larsonc I agree but I am both ... some have said your to stubborn to die ... I have heard that saying before ... I have also heard I am going to live ...just to make ur life miserable ...

I think anger makes someone older... This is odd.


For nefarious trolls it seems to keep them going.