When things are going so bad, do you still believe that things will be okay in the end?

[Pinay_ako]

No. It will get worse

Yes, I am positive it will turn out well.

Que sera, que sera

I don’t know what to think anymore

[NostalgiaSenpi]

I am no longer a positive person. I've only seen my life get worse. The past ten years proved that. Broken friendships, putting down my childhood pets, relatives dying off from suicide, drug overdose, old age, dear friends passing from disease, dealing with cancer. I don't believe in the possibility of a wife and kids any more. Everyone I care about is slowly dying off. I can't relate to my sisters and the only thing keeping us together is my mom, the same person that through my entire childhood was unreliable, never showing up on time or at all, never paying child support.

I'm going to be in my fifties and completely alone. I don't see any other possibilities. I'm Scrooge, without the focus on money.

[Malwins3]

Wow. Why Alone?

[NostalgiaSenpi]

I already mentioned my thoughts for that.

[Fromdusktilldawn]

Thats rough bro

[WanderingLoveWizard]

Do you hear that? It's the world's smallest violin... playing just for you 👌

[NostalgiaSenpi]

Congratulations, I don't give a fuck about your opinion, smartass.

[WanderingLoveWizard]

Keep crying you little bitch

[NostalgiaSenpi]

You're the real little bitch, private account..

[Heolurt]

From my experiences, it doesn't get better.

[AviatorTom]

I consider myself to be an optimistic realist, meaning I almost always believe things will get better, knowing that sometimes they won't, regardless of how good or bad they are now.

[Guy13]

Hard to say and depends on context. I keep a positive perspective though.

[abc3643]

No, of course not.

I've lived long enough to know that Hollywood endings are not real.

In real life, "evil" often triumphs and the good guy doesn't get the girl in the end.

This is one reason why Coen Brothers movies are so good; they don't necessarily have comfy tied-up happy endings but leave you haunted - just like real life can do.

Everyone should watch their 2009 movie "A Serious Man" which they made after winning Academy Awards including Best Picture for "No Country For Old Men". In "A Serious Man", the central character is Larry Gopnik who is a physics professor for whom everything just goes wrong. He's completely analogous to Job in the Bible - except that Job's fate and Larry's are markedly different.

[TenderFantasy]

I think that it would depend on what you mean by "so bad". Some people consider a broken ankle as the end of the world or gaining ten pounds or losing $5,000 in gambling. It really depends I think. Life is shit crappy at times and other times, you're on top. Someone said it was like a wheel. I think I believe that.

I also believe that for your life to be really bad, you had to have had a hand in it, or just unfortunate luck! But yeah, maybe like, they said, it's more on how you deal/react to it, rather than the problem itself? I don't know! Great question though!

[libsaretards]

Absolutely. A year before the pandemic, I was jobless, homeless and living out of a car that could not go faster than 20mph. My credit was completely wrecked and I knew bankruptcy was going to be my only way out. I sometimes went days without eating. I got a job and moved into a hotel just in time for the start of the pandemic. Then some tornadoes destroyed my workplace so I was once again without a job.

Even under those circumstances, I knew that giving up meant death and I was not ready to go yet. I had survived many horrors before this and I survived 100% of what life threw at me. Once I started thinking like that, my will to live and defeat my bad luck was ignited. I am still living out of the hotel, but things are much better now. God has blessed me, even in my lowest times. So, as long as I live, EVERYTHING can get better.

[Moist_Gums]

Yeah, I do think things will get better. Everything in life is temporary and I know I made a promise to myself to always have me covered. So even at the very bottom I know I can slowly work my way back up.

I've come too far in life and been through too many struggles to stay down. Forever resilient and going to love myself enough to do better for me.

[midnightmoon05]

It is what it is…what’s the point of worrying. Make smart decisions that is under your control. Most make dumb decisions…don’t be like them.
I have had bad times…I have moved on from…what can be worse? Death? Broke? None of that stuff matters… so just enjoy each day and each moment with your love ones.

[ObscuredBeyond]

Varies a lot based on the circumstances. Been through a lot of rough patches. Including my grandpa passing away earlier today.

But I have more trust in that leading to better things down the line, than I do in the banking situation ending well. As corrupt as everything is now, that may take a civil war to fix. Glad God has the answers. I too often don't.

[LickwidSkie]

It partially depends on what it is. In some situations, you know things are going to get better or worse. Sometimes it largely or completely depends on one's actions. Other times, there's simply no way to know if things are going to get better or worse. If we had that kind of control a lot of bad things wouldn't happen to many of us in the first place.

[ChiTown33]

This is probably the greatest thing I derive from my faith. I know whatever I'm enduring God will get me through it.

Whatever I've dealt with in my life I always come out a stronger person on the other end. So as a result it's a test of my faith that makes me grow in my faith.

[Still-alive]

Yes because time changed things all the time in my opinion. It can feel like nothings going to change when you’re in the middle of the terrible things happening but eventually it will pass and sometime in the future you may find yourself in a much better spot then you were before. This has been my experience.

[msc545]

It depends on what is going poorly in my initial assessment of the problem and my ongoing assessments of the problem my mind can change in the middle of it very easily depending on what I see and what I think about what I see. I realize that's a mouthful but sometimes trying to figure out the nature of a problem and the optimal response to it can be very complicated and very dynamic with things changing rapidly.

[Sour-rose]

I am positive and usually the next day it gets worse.. or better. Either way, the bad things will break away for the good to come. Always. For me anyways. :)

[CateM]

I generally try to keep a positive attitude, but if I have negative feelings, won't hide them. But I know no matter how many times I'm knocked down, I will get back up again

[Cecinene]

Of course I know that for sure things will turn out to be good someday, that is why patience is the only key to such circumstances

[FreyaRed]

C'est la Vie

If you don't know the dark and cold abyss, you will never enjoy a cruise above the clouds in warm sunshine

[Apulu_Imback]

I'm highly optimistic so yeah, whenever a problem comes up I'm like this will surely end up well because I believe in happy endings.

[exitseven]

I used to be able to shake off adversity and somehow work through it. Lately it seems that things keep getting worse.

[mandyfire98]

I do try to think it will get better. This too shall pass type of mentality.

[serious]

Yes I still try and believe things will improve in a positive way