Realistic!

First if all this article talks about how in 1988 these two psychologists wrote about how people tend to think positive thoughts everyday about what's happeneing and the future that aren't so realistic. It's a way to help our self-estem to function a normal day. It's kind of sad but there was a study on people with eating disorders to rate themselves and then have other people rate themselves on their physical appreance. The sad part was that normal people with no disorders had to do the same and studies came out to be that the people with the eating disorders were around the same rating as the other people rating them. So i guess this shows how negative people that see the bad in themselves are people that are more realistic than the people having high or regular self-esteem because they just try to make themselves happy. This is kind of an article that puts you down but at the same time i can see where an everyday person tries to find the positive thing in their lives even though it's not always true but i don't always see the bad in that.

Putnam, Christopher S. A Total Perspective Vortex. DamnInteresting. 16 January 2009.