[lordkrandel]

I'm a pessimist at heart. What if I had a stroke tonight? Slip in the bathroom, kill someone while driving to work. What if my girlfriend leaves me today. My mother could die tomorrow, my brother can get hurt while working. Optimists live happily through it all, depressed people close themselves in. Realists try to potect themselves by mentally doubling the estimates.

[somecallitblues]

That sounds more like an anxiety than pessimism...