Half-Empty...Half-Full...?

There are, among us, those who insist that theirs is a better way to perceive life. We have all had various individuals represented to us as someone who “sees the glass as half-empty” versus the one who “sees the glass as half-full.” And, invariably, the one who is representing the particular “Glass Perceiver” is doing so with his or her own favorable or unfavorable bias.

Please allow me to suggest a somewhat different take on the matter. I would first offer that both the Glass/Empty and the Glass/Full present potential perils absent in the Glass/ Half-Empty… Glass/ Half-Full. For both the Half-Empty and/or Half-Full Glass offer an equal advantage over both the glass filled too the brim and the glass dry to the bottom. The glasses in a one-half state are both quite safe and benign in their freedom from either the threat of drowning in excess… or death by want. And, in so doing, once again bear testimony to the prudence of moderation. Which should allow both the “half-full” thinkers and the “half-empty” thinkers comfort with both their own and the other’s perspectives.

There… you see? Though admittedly silly… we have again shown that there is always a way to accept each other.

John-Michael/ 17 Sept 2004


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