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Certainly all three apply to me, depending of the circumstances in my life..

All 3 of them. When i am feeling pessimistic I think to myself come on now you have to be a bit more realistic, so then I choose to be optimistic.

i was born to pessimistic parents.  I was somewhere between pessimistic and realistic most of my life.  I now am optimistic and often say "In the end it will all work out"...BTW my optimistic view and that saying of mine drives pessimists crazy.

I'm a realist. I get hopeful and make my start wishes but in the end, I believe in fate.......

Im a little all three.Lliving in a small west texas town and involved in high school sports I know when a beating in a game is coming. Just being realistic. I was called pessimestic because i knew we would lose by 45 points in a football game. In the end, i was right. I am optimistic because , i am not liberal in life.

My wife says I'm pessimistic but I never count on things working out just the way they were planned.There are too many variables in life. So I s'pose I'm a realist. That old saying,"All the best laid plans of mice & men.........." I apply that to everything.

All my friends say I am pessimistic, I say I am just realistic.

i was an optimist ..and realist...but now I`m not so sure now..I`m struggling to be the best Mother on this planet...but I`m too unwell and exhausted to cope alone with all their..and my sister`s kids!

I am more realistc now , I think you get that way as you get older.

Im,not sure realy,but i have always belived that behind every cloud lies a bigger,and blacker cloud, 

realistic

I am a optimistic-pessimist, I am positive that things will go wrong.

I am probably a realist, which has always allowed me to assess the facts and circumstances, and to view things in either a pessimistic or optimistic manner. Just because we might not be aware of all the variables every situation inherently drags along with it, it doesn't preclude the fact that most everything can go from good to bad, or bad to good, for that matter. I look at it, as just being pragmatic, which is simply playing with the cards dealt us, as effectively as possible.

I am an optimist, with pessimistic overtones (which is perhaps a bit of realist).  On the whole, though, I always believe, maybe not with all the optimism I'd like to have, that good stuff is ahead of me. When I am realistic, I realize that GOOD STUFF is all around me!!!!

I'm a "skeptimistic "..my own term for being skeptical and optimistic all in one..!