Stuck on the bright side?
Brunch|July 22, 2023
It's impossible to strictly be an optimist, a pessimist or a realist. So, why are we still living life confined by these categories?
Karishma Kuenzang
Stuck on the bright side?

Are you an optimist, pessimist or a realist?" Seriously? It's 2023. It's possible to identify as nonbinary, be proudly multilingual, be in the middle of two careers and four income streams. Why must we put ourselves into only one of three non-spill Tupperware boxes?

Think about it. It's possible to be an optimist, pessimist and a realist all at once, depending on the situation and what's needed at the time. It's what we're all doing, anyway.

Leave the absolutes to the movies. Imtiaz Ali's Jab We Met (2017) has the full set: Aditya (Shahid Kapoor) is a pessimist, Geet (Kareena Kapoor Khan) is an eternal optimist, Anshuman (Tarun Arora), comes across as the most level-headed. He's practical about his decision to not indulge in Geet's plans to elope, though he's hardly a man to snatch up.

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