the VG board football thread

As an advocate for pessimism, let me posit that it is in fact the best chance for happiness. If you're a pessimist, the worst that can happen is you're right, in which case you lose nothing. But they might win, in which case you are very pleasantly surprised....always a good thing.

On the other hand, with a good attitude, if they win, it's exactly what you expected, so what? But if they lose, your hopes and dreams are crushed in a miasma of pain and misery until you can't even breath anymore and you just wish someone would put you out of your misery, but she's still there every morning when you wake up like an albatross around your neck. Nag nag nag. "I want to watch a dance show!" "Let me tell you about my day". And you realize it will be like that every day until you die, which you begin to pray will be right soon, but death never finds you. You're in a purgatory of bitterness, getting older and weaker, but no closer to sweet release of death. Finally, you realize that your only out is to wrap your mouth around the loving barrel of a 12 gauge, only you're too scared and too weak to pull the trigger. You pray for strength, but there's no one to hear it. This every day until you're just a shell of what was once human, moving robotic through space and time for all eternity.

Now which one of these is worse?

Nah, if you're an optimist you are sad for a short period of time and then you quickly turn to throughts of why we will win in all next year. Moreover, the optimist gets the week before the game to have a good time which never happens for the pessimist. And, if they win the job of the game week lead up is just increased after the win becuase you were right. So, you never get that depression if we lose and you get just as much if not more joy if we win because the pessimist is going to immediately start thinking about how we are going to lose the next week.