Is your glass half empty or half full?
My glass has water in it.
It is half full.
You have a glass too.
There is water in your glass.
Is your glass half empty or half full?
What are you looking at?
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose – Kahlil Gibran
Some days my glass feels empty. I think about everything I haven’t done. You didn’t get the basement cleaned out by the end of the year. You are not very good at finishing things.
You didn’t. You didn’t. You didn’t.
And some days my glass feels full. I can see the rose and not its thorns. Hey, good job, you cleaned out your bathroom and threw away three bags of old shampoo bottles. You cleaned all seven litter boxes. You can do this.
You did it. You did it. You did it.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Is your glass half empty or half full?
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I wrote this post on January 4th, 2013. I had forgotten about it until Facebook reminded me of it this morning in my news feed. It reminded me to think of the rose.
This past year my glass was either full or empty. My life was great or my life was crappy. But life is more like a rose, with good and bad all mixed in together.
What do you think?
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