Are you glass half empty or glass half full?

[alphabassettgrrl]

I'm generally a half-full girl. Unless it contains something tasty, then it'll be all empty and needs to be filled up again.

I do have my days though where nothing goes right. Then I'm a pessimist but I know it passes.

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

I'm generally a half-full girl. Unless it contains something tasty, then it'll be all empty and needs to be filled up again.

Yea baby! Such a positive spin!

I like to think half full. Remember, {as were a lot of us} I grew up with the saying tossed at me 'There are kids starving in China!!! Eat those butter beans!!! ' so I grew up thinking life was pretty good. Even when it sucked, I felt it was better than someones, somewhere, so, be grateful.

I still think this way. When a friend asked me this similar question, I told her this answer. But, I added, some days I find it harder and harder to find people who are having it worse than I am.

But, such is life.

The bad days make the good days that much sweeter.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

Even when it sucked, I felt it was better than someones, somewhere, so, be grateful.

The way I look at it, there is only one person on the whole planet who can't say that someone else has it worse off than them. And I'm pretty sure that I'm not that guy.

But on the other hand, I do not judge myself by other people. It is my own feelings and emotions that matter. And if my personal state sucks to me then it sucks - regardless of anyone else. I can choose to do something about it or not.

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

But on the other hand, I do not judge myself by other people. It is my own feelings and emotions that matter. And if my personal state sucks to me then it sucks - regardless of anyone else. I can choose to do something about it or not.

I don't actully think of each and every person who has it worse. I just try to think, it could be worse. It has been worse. Pull myself up by those old bootstraps and keep going.

Somedays it is really hard dealing with emotions that are so bad, there has to be a way to get out from underthem. When I compare it to someone else, I think, 'They are still making it, life isn't impossible, there must be an answer....'

I think the older I get, the easier it is to feel the glass is half full. I've been there, done that, suffered through things that I won't ever again {at least I don't think so....} and had some wonderful joys that can not be taken away. Those things are in my glass, keeping it half full.

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

I think the older I get, the easier it is to feel the glass is half full. I've been there, done that, suffered through things that I won't ever again {at least I don't think so....} and had some wonderful joys that can not be taken away. Those things are in my glass, keeping it half full.

MouseWife, that summarizes alot of my feelings too. I think I'm a half full person.

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts

MouseWife, that summarizes alot of my feelings too. I think I'm a half full person.

That means we have alot of living left to do, right?

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

That means we have alot of living left to do, right?

The best is yet to come.