Becoming a banana is actually realistic - inside your head.

Coining a different meaning for "Realist", "Realizing" and "Realistic" to avoid future confusion with cynicism and to make the subjectivity of it more apparent. "You're being realistic by realizing through action what you're saying and thinking." Also hopefully, you'll analyze it all too.

Why? because people often think that being cynical is the same as looking at the world through objective eyes - because you think you have all the facts in front of you. In reality, you're not seeing it at all. (Haha, in reality.) What you see is similar to statistics - meaning spot checks at best unless isolated cases. What you see is only what's within your own reach and you do not reach around the world, you don't actually reach into other people's heads either no matter what you think. Pessimism is not realism.

That's why I'm coining the meaning, because you can't be realistic for the world, only personally - if you want to be realistic - turn whatever you say into reality, basically. Otherwise you're just "other words with meanings" and not actually "realistic". However, if you do decide that nothing is worth doing and that you're just being realistic - paradoxically enough, that makes you realistic. It's all just within yourself.

I wouldn't have had any skills at all if I didn't do everything in my own power to turn it all into reality, and in reality I am still far from the reality I want! But like I said, analyze yourself first. That's a good skill to becoming a realist.