The Pessimist
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Being born with a terrible curse, when you are cynical about life and find no point to fight an already losing battle, at that point, people start to show up in your life, and each of them leaves imprint upon there in such a way that you can't help but start to see the sunny side of your apparently hopeless life, and feelings set off to erect their ways up to you following five different trajectories.
Yet then, things start to get complicated. Bad things get you winded up into a tireless race of exploitation, and you start to having second thoughts about your adaptive changes. Does changing have served you a better life, or being pessimistic had been the best option for you and you chose wrong?
Read the journey of the ultimate pessimist to explore the life through her eyes.
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