Thread: Are you optimistic about the future?

I try and live by - "hope for the best, prepare for the worst."

I'd like to believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel...and it's NOT a train.

I am optimistic. A year ago, the credit markets almost completely seized up. For a good 5-6 months, we we were falling at a rate comparable to the Great Depression. The panic is over, and now the hard slog is underway. The important part is that the panic is over.

I'm not optimistic about my country's future (the UK) -- it's turning to crap. I'm optimistic about my own life, and my children's. No doubt they will live in a much more challenging times than I, but I'm optimistic I can give them the wherewithal to think and work their way through it.

And over the years I have become less optimistic about the world as a whole. Wars, disease, famine... when I see what we're doing to our environment, our resources, our economies, and our attitudes to all the above, I figure those Malthusian checks are going to have a big impact in our children's lifetimes.

I am neither optomistic or pessamistic. What will be will be.

There will be new challenges, and no doubt the world will be a very different place by the end of my life time. That's not a bad thing.

I'm not terribly optimistic about the future of the US. My fiance and I are very much interested in moving to and working in Europe when we finish school, particularly Northern Germany or Scandinavia. We both speak German (I have 7 years of it) and I know some Swedish, so it shouldn't be too difficult since she will have a degree in environmental sustainability and I am getting mine in German and international business.

So I would say my (our) future looks bright, but things here don't look so sunny.

As long as me and my family are healthy, all other worries are secundary.
Have no loans and no fear to get fired due to economical reasons.
About the future of my country i do not know. We just have to take what there is to come, good or bad.

I'm optimistic about my own future however I'm not so optimistic about this country. I see too many negative forces at play.