Helen is not usually so pessimistic Being with optimistic people can be something positive. They can show you a different way to see life or to live it. I, personally, am a very pessimistic person. I know that being pessimistic is not good because it can lead you to suffer from stress, depression or anxiety. I have tried to change my point of view of things when something went wrong. I tried to be more optimistic but I can't! My friend Heather is helping me a lot. It is not like Heather to be so pessimistic. Every time I do something wrong or something doesn't happen the way I want them to happen, she is there to advise me. She tells me to breathe in and then, to breathe out. She calms me down. She encourages me to keep going and don't get stuck in negative thoughts. Heather always asks me why I am the way I am when I say or think something in a negative way. I explain her that we always have to think every possible situation. Either good or bad. Its pros and cons. She keeps telling me that if I think in the way I do, then of course every single thing that I do will be wrong. She knows that I can get very frustrated, so she tries to show me only the positive of things. She is a great friend because she loves me and takes care of me, even if I don't ask her to do that.