true, “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised”. It can be tiresome, though…

I always carry this poem with me (credited to Francis J. Allison):

A crowd of troubles passed him by
As he with courage waited;
He said, “Where do you troubles fly
When you are thus belated?”
“We go,” they say, “to those who mope,
Who look on life dejected,
Who meekly say ‘good bye’ to hope,
We go where we’re expected.”