General Discussion : Are you a cynic or a romantic, or somewhere in between?

I'm a rancorous sentimentalist...

Cynical muthafucka

also smartass

Cynical. Though I find myself doubting that I lack the motivation and dedication of a true cynic.

Then again I'm dubious as to whether true cynics exist. Or even true romantics. Part of me thinks this whole conversation is moot.

Romantic, but I write like a cynic so I sound cool.

... thanks for making me say that out loud.

I'm only romantic if it involves sex.

I'm a black humored romantic who is turning more and more cynical after each tryst.

There is a difference between a cynic and a romantic besides the kind of week they've had?

Well played sir.

Depends on my mood, but usually somewhere in the middle, although often to one extreme. I can believe in everyone and everything and the power of love and music and working together one minute, and just really fucking hate humanity the next.

I think my writing is more cynical. I don't have many happy endings, or the ones I have are "happy--but".

Such a hopeless romantic that reality will never live up to my ideals.  Ever.  Which makes me a stone cold cynic.  Oooh - paradox.

Did the alignment some time ago, pretty sure I'm chaotic neutral too :)

If you guys came up "chaotic neutral" instead of your characters, I'm really sorry for you.

@Dwayne: you should be sorry for those who got ground to describe my character.

I wonder who else voted "Romantic, and my fiction shows it; there are still ideals to fight for" not many of us out there it appears....

I call bull shit....you even wrote a romance novel...which leaves one more person unaccounted for. 

So it was a historical romance.

I could have swore you told me you did and that it was on a happy shelf like the others....I'll have to find it...

meh

Who voted romantic ect ect 

Show yourself! 

My idea of love is pretty cynical. 

Cynicism (Greek: κυνισμός), in its original form, refers to the beliefs of an ancient school of Greek philosophers known as the Cynics (Greek: Κυνικοί, Latin: Cynici). Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. This meant rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, health, and fame, and by living a simple life free from all possessions. As reasoning creatures, people could gain happiness by rigorous training and by living in a way which was natural for humans. They believed that the world belonged equally to everyone, and that suffering was caused by false judgments of what was valuable and by the worthless customs and conventions which surrounded society. Many of these thoughts were later absorbed into Stoicism. -- Wiki-wiki-wiki-pedia

Weird how things change.

I sometimes can't tell if I'm a cynic pretending to be a romantic or the other way around.

But I'm quite certain that I'd like to be a romantic - it feels pretty damn stupid saying otherwise.
Who wouldn't wanna kiss the one you love in the pouring rain and then drop meat, buy a house and be fucking peachy until you wither and fade?
 

Are you a cynic by choice or as a result of shitty experiences?

Either way, I don't know what's worse.
 

kiss the one you love in the pouring rain and then drop meat

This is my phrase of the day. 

I'm a cynic in the old ways, but I'm a practicing romantic.  I became a cynic after reading Lamb, by Christopher Moore and learning that being a cynic didn't mean being a bitter prick (also the name of my new Boy Band).