Attitude of Twins

The mother of twins was very concerned with their outlook on life. One of the twins was an optimist, the other, a pessimist. She did everything she could think of to make her son, the pessimist, an optimist. Finally, at wit's end, she took them to a psychologist.

Now, this psychologist was bound and determined to reverse the roles of these two boys. He put the pessimist in a room full of beautiful toys and left him to play with them. He took the optimist and put him in a room full of stinking horse manure. The psychologist thought he had it made, the manure was sure to bring the optimist to tears. Fifteen minutes later, he decided to check on the pessimist. To his surprise, the boy was sitting surrounded by these bright toys crying his eyes out.

"What's the matter?" the doctor asked, "Don't you like these toys?"

"Of course I do," respond the boy, "but pretty soon I'll have to go home, and I won't be able to play with these toys anymore."

The psychologist shook his head in amazement, but then remembering the situation of the other boy, he smiled . . . surely the optimist would no longer be so happy. He opened the door to the smelly room and to his horror, saw a big smile on the face of the little optimist, who was throwing manure all over the place. The psychologist couldn't believe his eyes.

"What are you doing?" he asked, "That's just a bunch of horse manure!"

"I know," said the little optimist, "but there's got to be a pony in her somewhere!"

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