A cup half full? Or, a cup half empty?
"A cup half empty!" Replies the pessimist.
"Nay, a cup half full!" Replies ever the optimist.
But I? I would ask about the circumstances before I saw the cup. What do I mean by that? What I mean is that this saying (in my eyes) is more than just who is a pessimist and who is an optimist. It's very easy for both to give the answer they gave...but why is that so? It's not that either answer is wrong, but it is very easy to make your own assumptions about something before you think to ask how that thing got to where it was.
Both answers can, on a technicality, be very correct.
Example 1: If someone were to drink from a full cup and leave half the water inside. That makes the cup half empty.
On the other hand.
Example 2: If someone were to walk by and see the empty cup so they fill it halfway. The cup is now half full.
This question is not to just garner the mental states of the person you ask it to, but it's a lesson to us all that circumstances matter and to not simply assume we know better just because we think we do. It's also a lesson in the very complex yet amazing mind of people.
As I said, circumstances matter AND they also change. One day you might ask the once pessimist the same exact question, and they now answer the glass is half full, but why? It's because people's perspectives change. Sometimes you're in situations that make you feel half empty, so it will be very hard to hold onto hope and easier to see everything half as empty as you feel – but on the flipside, you can also have seasons where everything is right and it's easier to see everything through a positive lense.
Let this saying be a reminder to us all that, no matter how each of us perceives something, we often have the choice to take a moment for ourselves and make our circumstances into something fuller or emptier.
Don't wait for others to pour into you, pour time into yourself.
So, will you choose to empty your cup or will you fill it?
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Midget of MO: Forgetmenot/Tootsie Pop/Big Brother - Birthday: January 19th
Sparky- February 14th
Joe (Joemama)/Agent boi- February 19th
Goatee/Goat Man/Sir Ramsalot/Siruboo- February 22nd
Voi (said Voy like the voy for envoy), Dev-Chan, Vesick. Gardevoir_Lovesick- February 27th
Ren, Neo, Qq (said cue-cue), Sai-Sen (Neo Queen Serenity)- March 11th
Baby Chimken- March 22nd
Maddie- April 1st
Mr. Racoon (Amir_Bahram)- April 13th
Bobo- June 15th
Senpai- June 25th
Dag- August 9th
Spark Plug- August 13th
Ghost Babe- September 12th
My Baby Panda- October 3rd
Shadow- October 16th
Kura/Sakurakiss- October 22nd
My Little Lea- November 22nd
"A cup half empty!" Replies the pessimist.
"Nay, a cup half full!" Replies ever the optimist.
But I? I would ask about the circumstances before I saw the cup. What do I mean by that? What I mean is that this saying (in my eyes) is more than just who is a pessimist and who is an optimist. It's very easy for both to give the answer they gave...but why is that so? It's not that either answer is wrong, but it is very easy to make your own assumptions about something before you think to ask how that thing got to where it was.
Both answers can, on a technicality, be very correct.
Example 1: If someone were to drink from a full cup and leave half the water inside. That makes the cup half empty.
On the other hand.
Example 2: If someone were to walk by and see the empty cup so they fill it halfway. The cup is now half full.
This question is not to just garner the mental states of the person you ask it to, but it's a lesson to us all that circumstances matter and to not simply assume we know better just because we think we do. It's also a lesson in the very complex yet amazing mind of people.
As I said, circumstances matter AND they also change. One day you might ask the once pessimist the same exact question, and they now answer the glass is half full, but why? It's because people's perspectives change. Sometimes you're in situations that make you feel half empty, so it will be very hard to hold onto hope and easier to see everything half as empty as you feel – but on the flipside, you can also have seasons where everything is right and it's easier to see everything through a positive lense.
Let this saying be a reminder to us all that, no matter how each of us perceives something, we often have the choice to take a moment for ourselves and make our circumstances into something fuller or emptier.
Don't wait for others to pour into you, pour time into yourself.
So, will you choose to empty your cup or will you fill it?
Discord: Thicc_Personality (If I didn't accept your FR here, don't add me on Discord )
︵‿︵‿୨♡୧‿︵‿︵
Hall of Birthdays:
Midget of MO: Forgetmenot/Tootsie Pop/Big Brother - Birthday: January 19th
Sparky- February 14th
Joe (Joemama)/Agent boi- February 19th
Goatee/Goat Man/Sir Ramsalot/Siruboo- February 22nd
Voi (said Voy like the voy for envoy), Dev-Chan, Vesick. Gardevoir_Lovesick- February 27th
Ren, Neo, Qq (said cue-cue), Sai-Sen (Neo Queen Serenity)- March 11th
Baby Chimken- March 22nd
Maddie- April 1st
Mr. Racoon (Amir_Bahram)- April 13th
Bobo- June 15th
Senpai- June 25th
Dag- August 9th
Spark Plug- August 13th
Ghost Babe- September 12th
My Baby Panda- October 3rd
Shadow- October 16th
Kura/Sakurakiss- October 22nd
My Little Lea- November 22nd
