Life Advice

Don’t order office chairs online, because if you don’t like it get ready for a big ol’ box boner. I’m going to be embarrassed carrying this thing into UPS. SMH

Make sure its Money Woof

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?

Let my boy Lao Tzu school your Western philosophy of glasses by reminding you that, "A bowl is most useful when it's empty..." @wei_ying https://youtu.be/0N_RO-jL-90?si=2vqYEfSLrcLEm5Wd

@gabriel_true Respectfully, don't nobody care about that old dead guy XD. I'm kidding (kind of? Lol). The same can be applied to the bowl too, you know? As I said: "~perspective matters~", and obviously in Tzu Laoshi's mind, his bowl is most useful when empty.