Monday, March 5, 2012

What is Pollyanna????


A Pollyanna is someone who is blindly optimistic about every situation, sometimes to the point of foolishness. The term is typically used in a negative way, to describe someone who cannot think about the more serious ramifications of various situations. Someone who behaves like a Pollyanna might be said to be Pollyannaish, which is why you might hear statements like “so-and-so can be so Pollyannaish about sales numbers.

The term Pollyanna comes from a 1913 novel of the same name by Eleanor H. Porter. The heroine of the book, Pollyanna, is an orphan who is sent to live with her aunt in Vermont. In her childhood, Pollyanna plays a game with her father called “The Glad Game,” in which the two try to look on the bright side of every situation, and she takes the game with her when she goes to live with her aunt. Over the course of the book, she transforms the outlook of people living in her town, teaching them all to look on the bright side of life.

Taken from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-pollyanna.htm

I think should be funny to be a Pollyanna person, no stress, no problems or worries, but Pollyanna people should be careful about people around because they can labeled them as inhumans because for their way of behave .....

1 comment:

  1. Very interesting I've never heard about Pollyanna.

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