Are you an optimist or a pessimist before your trip?

[WDWfan uk]

Before you go away, are you thinking dark thoughts e.g. one of us is bound to fall ill, bet we don't get our pre-requested flight seats, airline will lose the luggage, flight delay, it won't be as good as our last visit etc etc

Or are you an optimist thinking, this is going to be our best holiday yet, with a plan like ours what could go wrong etc.

I must be honest and say I think at least a couple of those pessimistic thoughts ......... but then when it all goes smoothly and the holiday is terrific it makes it even better ....... and..... if anything does go wrong, I am prepared for it LOL!

How about you?

 

[Olaf]

I worry about flying, I hate it. It doesn't help that DH is a pilot and will sit there and pompously recite statistics to me. Just makes me want to smack him.

Then about halfway through the trip, I start getting depressed, because it's going to be over soon. I can't win.

 

[shooter364]

Count me as an optimist. It is always so good to get away, especially when going to wdw, I alsays ask myself: "even if things go wrong, how bad can it be?"

After last september's trip, I think the only thing that could make it too awful to bear, is if there were a devastating huurricane centered around the parks themselves.

 

[Bwalker]

I am an optimist/realist at heart and usually pretty cheery, but before a trip, I get a tad meloncholy and worrisome. I'm concerned about my college children (which is crazy - they are extremely self-sufficient), worried over forgetting something (another crazy item - you would think that over the years I woud have noticed that "they" make more than just one item and I can go buy it!), and just plain apprehensive about life in general.

I thought it was just me - so it's nice to know I'm in good company

Aloha,
Lorraine

 

[Penny12]

I wouldn't say I'm a pessimist about my trips exactly - but I must admit, every single time I check in my suitcases, I wonder whether that might be the last time I see them!

 

[BevS97]

I'm pretty optimistic before we go, but

Then about halfway through the trip, I start getting depressed, because it's going to be over soon. I can't win.

this is Very true - I get so annoyed with myself because I 'ruin' the 2nd week of my holiday thinking 'oh no, it's nearly over'

Vec

 

[signtalker]

Im the worlds worst!!!, it starts about 3 weeks or so before the holiday, I start to notice silly things, like all of a sudden they are playing air disaster films on the TV, planes are grounded due to faulty screws(and its normally the one youre travelling on),

People start going into detail how long a "Delay" they had last time they went on holiday. Then DS starts thinking its cool to climb on the garden shed roof, and watch mother have heart failure once she realises, and when you think it cant get any worse you get to WDW,........
and find your car keys and passes are locked in the safe in your room and it doesnt open!.When you finally mange to start enjoying your WDW trip, they have the worst storms in years for most of the 2 weeks!!!!.

Oh well fingers crossed for may 2003

Jules

 

[Janice]

Ever the optimist I think.

I just believe that every holiday is going to be better than the last, because the last one you had, could have been the last you ever had, so to get another one is a bonus, therefore, be optimistic and live for the day!

..........and there isnt anything you cant buy! So if it gets lost, you forget it, or whatever, there is always an alternative solution

(you know me..........any excuse to shop!) LOL

 

[pegasusEH]

Definitely an optimist. Only worry that I ever have is that the plane going over is delayed, other than that I take it as it comes and if things don't go quite according to plan so be it.

 

[UKDEB]

We always make up our minds to chill out and <i>refuse</i> to be stressed out by anything. We look forward to our WDW trips so much, that to let anything get to us would be foolish.

Last December, for example, we queued for 2 hours at check-in which is a nightmare for me as I hate flying. I just told myself to relax, and that in a few hours we would be in Orlando. I thought about all the far worse things I could be doing like having a filling, or being in the middle of a job interview and suddenly queuing to get on a plane to Orlando seemed like a <i>good</i> thing to be doing! We just resigned ourselves to our plight and chatted and laughed. That's not to say we don't learn from things - this time we're going Premium Economy!

It's a strategy that we discuss as a group before we go and on the whole it works well. We apply it to every situation - queue jumpers, getting irritable with one another, long lines, bad service, etc, etc. Even when dd virtually chopped off the end of her finger on the paper towel dispenser at Blizzard Beach. <b>Nothing</b> is going to ruin our holiday!

I <i>do</i> start getting depressed during the last 5 days or so about going home. That's the benefit of going for 3 weeks - you get 2 whole weeks of pure enjoyment before it sets in! If anyone has any tips on how to overcome this, I'd love to hear them - it's the one thing our philosophy doesn't seem to have an effect on.

 

[Mrs Dazzle]

Originally posted by WDWfan,uk
Before you go away, are you thinking dark thoughts e.g. one of us is bound to fall ill, bet we don't get our pre-requested flight seats, airline will lose the luggage, flight delay, it won't be as good as our last visit etc etc

Well, this is me I'm afraid . . . . but that's because I try and plan things to the last dot . But, then I'm an optimist because I just love our holidays in Florida and know we'll have a good time . . . just takes me a few days to unwind once we're out there, when I know we're there safely, the hotel room's ok, the parks are not too crowded etc

Can't wait; can't wait; can't wait; can't wait; can't wait; can't wait

 

[kazzie]

I think I must be a bit of a pesimist too I worry one of the family will get ill and we can't go

A few days before one of our holidays DH fell off a ladder but luckily didn't break anything,all I could think was 'What a relief we can still go on holiday'...terrible wife

 

[Janice]

I know what you mean about 'Coming Home Syndrome' Deb - although we dont get three weeks, but how I overcome it is, as soon as that thought creeps into my head I just shake myself and say "You have to go home.................otherwise you cant experience the thrill of coming back!" Works for me

"All that planning to do!"

 

[AlisonB]

I couldn't decide what I was!

One minute I was as high as kite with excitement thinking it would be the best holiday I'd ever have/had and that NOTHING would spoil it! Next minute I was filled with doom and gloom thinking that someone would fall ill at the last minute and we wouldn't be able to go etc, or we'd lose our cases!

I still don't know what I am!

 

[drennan]

BOTH !!! Is that possible

I hate flying so I'm a pesimist until my feet are finally on the ground and then I'm a optimist and just get on with having a JOLLY GOOD TIME !!!! (LOL)

ttfn

 

[eyoreaud]

Great Thread!

Hmmm... i think i'm an optimist even though i get real squeemish for 2 to 3 weeks before we fly as i don't like airports and have a fear of getting lost but once i'm there i'm always fine and wonder what the heck i was worrying about, i also think the squeemishness is caused by pure excitment!!!!!!

Off to plan our next trip!
Audrey,
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[floridalol]

Always optimistic. I'm the glass is half full sort. I don't get ulcers I give 'em!

 

[disneynutu.k.]

Definitely very optimistic about the holiday, but pessimistic that I won't get everything done that I want to before I go...e.g.bills paid, papers cancelled, nothing left in the fridge that will go off... Although my sister thinks I'm running around like a headless chicken.....

 

[Fantasia Sam]

I'm always optimisitic right up until we get on the plane and when we land.

Don't get me wrong I love flying but the only time I think of things going wrong is when we take off (pretty morbid huh?). When we land and go pick up our luggage I'm always paranoid that someone is gonna take our luggage or it'll be the last off and the longer we have to wait the more my brain goes into overdrive about what has happened to our luggage - but the worse never happens just as well.......

 

[Hilary]

I'm another born optimist and 'glass is half full' kind of person, which is probably just as well as DH's glass is definitely 'half empty'!

I sometimes get a bit stressed about the holiday preparations and planning, but I enjoy all that side of it too (makes the whole holiday process last longer if you spend three weeks getting the cases sorted out ) so even if I'm stressed it doesn't make me pessimistic.

This trip we're going with eight others of DH's family and I must admit I am getting ever so slightly concerned that maybe this time things won't be quite as carefree as on past trips! . Does that sound as though there might be a hint of pessimism creeping in?..........