Who is the real Optimist?

There seems to be some confusion on how to define an optimist and a pessimist. With "Adi the Great" commenting (check the second comment for this post) that this post is not contemporary, I believe it necessary to state the traditional meanings this post is based on. According to Answers.com,

Pessimist - a person who expects the worst

Optimist - a person with a positive outlook on life.

Now, read the following conversation between a Pessimist and an Optimist. Hope the conversation makes more sense now.

Pessimist: Dude, I'm so depressed. Yesterday everything seemed so perfect and today everything seemed to go against me. I was hit by a car while I was still waiting for the traffic lights to go green. How sad is that?

Optimist: No dude, look at the positive side of life. It could have so much worse. You should be happy it wasn't that bad afterall. It was just a little bad.

P: You mean it could have been worse?

O: Yes, ofcourse. Who knows? Maybe the car could have run over you. Maybe you just survived an accident that could have possibly killed you.

P: Dude, you are scaring me.

O: Oh, I'm sorry. That was not my intention. All I'm saying is look at all the worse things that could have happened but didn't happen.

P: Hmm.

O: Hmmmmm.

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P: But dude, I AM the Pessimist. Why are YOU being so negative about things? Shouldn't I be the one who is expecting the worst?

O: Hmm.

P: Hmmmmm.

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O: I guess, Pessimism is all there is in this world :(

I love this ending so much simply because this is the only logical ending. If you had wanted to give it a fairy tale ending, where optimism rules finally, it wouldn't be logical. Imagine this,

P: I guess, Optimism is all there is in this world :(

Do you get the paradox??