When did you lose your last large chunk of Idealism?

Can anyone remember?
I guess i lost mine too slow and over a too large period of time to really point it out.
But: I guess there are still believers among us. There always is.

I never did. I'm carved out of solid idealism.

I acknowledge that most other people are self-serving cynics, though. This is why I'm grumpy.

Reading this thread.

Boot camp.

When I was about six or so.

The day I died.

Implying that no one could be idealistic on these forums...

I don't think I've ever really lost it. If you don't have at least some hope for the future, what is life but mere surviving day to day? If you don't have any goals or anything you want, then what's the point? Even if you can't accomplish those goals, without at least some ideals, a complete cynic would get nothing accomplished at all because he/she would see nothing as worth it.

edited 21st Mar '11 3:27:54 PM by Rainbow

Never had a belief in my life. Guess that would make me cynical, but I'm not really all that cynical. That would imply I believe in cynicism, and me believing in whiny little emo bitches about how life sucks has as much of a chance as you think it does.

Oh, I lose it and find it from time to time. I think it's a lot more fluid than you seem to give it credit for, and it's never extremely rarely wholly gone.

I am an idealist. Very grumpy and suspicious about humanity at times, but I am also still filled with that nice happy spirit idealists are known to have. There's also the issue of my ideals being largely meaningless in the long run and morality being a subjective matter. I've mostly come to terms with that by accepting it and keeping to my ideals. It's a very fluid thing in my case.

edited 21st Mar '11 3:52:21 PM by Aondeug

I am still very idealistic. I am just really strained sometimes by how awful humanity can be sometimes, but I still have faith in my ideals

edited 21st Mar '11 4:16:14 PM by NickTheSwing

I still hold to my ideals. Don't always show it well, but I do. I can't even call myself a Knight in Sour Armour; I still have some faith in the vast majority of humanity; I just hate how the real scuzzholes push everyone down.

edited 21st Mar '11 4:26:03 PM by GameChainsaw

When the devil sold his soul to me.

edited 21st Mar '11 4:35:36 PM by DarkDecapodian

I'm an idealist to the core, just a very cynical one.

Faith manages.

edited 21st Mar '11 4:36:58 PM by pagad

I keep losing it and getting it back

I'm a pessimist, but only so that I can be relatively pleased when things turn out well.

Boot Camp, and then Afghanistan. I think that was the last 50 percent, the first 50 percent was gone before I enlisted.

^

Hells yeah, expect the worst so you're never disappointed, only pleasantly surprised.

edited 21st Mar '11 4:53:31 PM by Barkey

Never.

A li'l in the teen years, but I recovered around the early 20's; life's not a Disney movie, but neither a Franz Kafka tale..,

somewhere in 5th grade probably

Picked up a Chomsky book in high school.

I never lost it, I just traded it in for realism.

The first time I ran into a Republican on the other side of the hostile media effect from me. This also damaged my confidence in my own perceptions, since after all, how can I prove that I'm not the biased one? (Of course, I don't feel biased, but who does?)

Probably my most recent school term. Which is still going on.

Of course, I think it'll gradually come back over the next 3 months.

I've become more idealistic over time, actually. I must be collecting the chunks that people keep losing.