Better the beguiling dream, or the harsh reality?

I’m in the middle. Expect the worst but hope for the best. That makes me a hopeful cynic.

A varying degree of inbetween though I do jaunt towards the edges every now again.

I prefer to be practical until it impedes the now moment of finding my “bliss” I indulge but if that becomes to cyclical I end up frustrated with my self and bored.

Politics.. I am still learning too much to count my opinion or view knowledged or complete.

I like to think I’m well balanced, with some strong leanings toward realism.
(Although it seems that most people I know think I’m an over the edge pessimist.)

I’m somewhere in the middle. I’m an optimistic realist. I don’t expect the best, or the worst either, because I find that in general it never turns out like that.

Started idealist, became the worst cynic you can possibly imagine, and now understand the keys to a perpetually blissful attitude but still learning to use them.

Same as @elbanditoroso. I’m a planner and a hopeful realist.

Nothing terrifies me more than the unknown and unforgiving future. That makes me a realist. HA!