A short excerpt from a YouTube monologue by Chris Collins (uploaded Nov 21, 2025) that opens by defining pessimist, optimist, and realist and asserts—briefly—that being optimistic tends to pay off in the long run.
What's the opposite of a pessimist? An optimist. You're an optimist eternally, sometimes like to a default. Yeah. You believe? I do. You believe in Santa Claus? Apparently.
What's that? What's in the middle? A realist.
I bet. That's right. Optimist, pessimist. It pays to be more optimistic. In the long run, that works out better.
Sort of. I think that my heart gets broken a little more.
