It Is All Relative
Why all this BS about a glass being half full or half empty. How can we say a person is negative if he says that a glass is half empty? It is all relative to what we are trying to do.
It may sound more positive to say the glass is half full if the ultimate condition was a full glass, but what does it matter? Half the bloody content is gone… or is it that half is still there?
On the other hand, if the ultimate aim was to empty the glass, then, by the same definition, it would be negative to say the glass is half full. Surely half empty must be the positive statement here.
But the fact of the matter is that the glass is half; be that half full or half empty. And no amount of positive or negative thinking is going to alter the continents of the glass. Half of whatever you were trying to do is now done and the other half of the job may prove to be more difficult or perhaps much easier then the first part.
Or do I have it wrong. Does a half full glass contain more than a half empty glass?
And then, on a more positive note, even an empty glass if full of air. Let’s hope it is not just hot air.
And to all my friends (and everybody else)
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Hmm, a happy valentines day to you too! Sorry I cannot be with you.