Are you glass half empty or glass half full?

[Snowflake]

As I was listening to my roomate kvetching last night, I started thinking (yes, I was thinking) to myself, and referring to my roomie "gosh but you sure are a glass half empty kind of person." Never happy, always kvetching.

All things considered, life is pretty good. Sure, I'm going through a couple of hiccups right now, and I've taken every opportunity to whine, but, I'd be lying if I did not say that I'm still pretty happy with my LoT in life. So I guess my attitude puts me in the glass half full camp.

How about you?

[Alex]

I think I'm more of a "the glass is at 50%" type person. No reason to take a position. Besides the important thing isn't where it is but which direction it is heading. When seeing the importance of 50% the key thing to know is whether it was previously full or previously empty. Like a barometer the direction of movement is at least as important as the measurement at a specific moment in time.

I just tend to take things as they are without any particular spin, be it optimistic or pessimistic. Everything could be better or worse, it will get better or worse. Somebody's better is somebody else's worse. You take the good, you take the bad. And there you have the facts of life.

[Ponine]

Half empty, without question.

[Capt Jack]

truly, it depends on the day.

some days, I wake up and think...it cant possibly get worse, so today I will make it better and will just not let anything get to me. cruise along without a care.

other days I wake up and have a clear vision of what I'll do that day, how it'll rock and sure as sh!t if every power in the universe seems to fight to keep me from it.

so some days, the glass is half empty, but whats there is crystal clear, cool water with lemon twist.

other days, its half full, but its filled with kerosene.

yin/yang

[katiesue]

I'm a definately half full person.

[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.