Pessimism is easy - Not worth of attention

The greater danger
for most of us
is not that our aim is
too high
and we miss it,
but that it is
too low
and we reach it
         -Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)

Pessimism is a very easy way out in life. It certainly is not worth of any interest and attention to any reasonable person. It is destruction of human potential. It is a cultural murder. I do not say that it is morally bad, and you should not be pessimist. What I want to present in this article is that pessimism is just too much a trivial and savage dimension to ones intellect. It is not worth of an ounce of human attention.
Pessimism is a very short view in ones life. A person become pessimist when she is confronted with road blocks, issues and obstacles. It is the short term attention to the overall picture is the creeps pessimism in. If one looks into the big picture, look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically from the day when the first amoeba crawled out of the slime and made its adventure on the land.

Tragedy is a cooked up melodrama.  It takes lot of cultural evolution to be able to attribute comedy, irony, and ambiguity to a so called tragic situation.

Rome was not built in a day. So was not the Baptistery of Florence! It took lot of courage, perseverance, ingenuity, creativity and conviction to create these expressions of beauty on this planet. I am sure it would have been very easy for Lorenzo Ghiberti to be pessimistic and express his inability to build both the north and the east doors of the Baptistery. But he chose the other way - the way which was more exciting! He researched the old Roman architecture, developed new ways of casting metal, improved his skill sets on sculpting. And took over the job of building those doors for next 50 years of his life!
It was not just by whim that later on Michaelangelo termed the east pair of doors as the  "Gate to Paradise"! It was really a work of art which even Gods would have been envious!

Its looks much more challenging and adventurous to be positive, and working towards a cause bigger than ones life! So rightly put by Victor Frankle the Australian psychologist-
"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself"

The real happiness can be thus achieved only by taking the road less traveled; only by disciplining oneself to be positive, and think big and great!

Shun the pessimism. It is easy. it is not worth of your precious attention.
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