Optimism
![Berlin Wall Monument (West view) – the west side of the Wall is covered with graffiti that reflects the hope and optimism post-1989](/Images/godic/202501/31/BerlinWallMonumentWestView0757.jpg")
![An optimist and a pessimist, Vladimir Makovsky, 1893](/Images/godic/202501/31/Оптимист_и_пессимист0757.jpg")
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Optimism is a mental attitude or world view. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full and the pessimist sees the glass as half empty.