All about Perspective

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An optimist sees the glass as half full. A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An engineer sees a glass that's too big for it's purpose.

STILL WHINING! :-(...

Good meme, 2tru

I never saw that as "pessimism" or "optimism" if you are talking about actual cups of actual liquids.

When your cup is half-empty then the cup is being drained. It's halfway to its goal.

When your cup is half-full then the cup is being filled.

Just depends on which way the water is going.

Now, if you apply this standard to a person's life and their metaphorical cup is metaphorically half-empty and they say it's half-full then THAT is optimism.

Nah, get out there and get that glass filled!

There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full.

And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.

The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say:

‘What’s up with this glass?

Excuse me?

Excuse me?

This is my glass?

I don’t think so.

My glass was full!

And it was a bigger glass!

And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass), or who has no glass at all, because they were at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman’s eye.

I tried to, most of it spilled out everywhere...