[Stu]

Originally Posted by ILoveDC

Pessimist

then you can be ecstatic when something good happens

What sort of battered logic is that?

Are optimists down in the dumps when good stuff happens?

Pessimism and optimism have nothing to do with mood, and everything to do with world view. I know some very happy pessimists and a few optimists who are on the edge of a nervous collapse.