Friday, September 18, 2009
A Question for the Class Questionnaire: Is the glass half empty or half full. Yes I know that that is slightly cliche; but to me it's important to know whether I'm talking I'm talking to someone who looks for the best or someone who looks for things to be negative about. So my question is what is your general outlook on life? Is the glass half empty or half full?
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This question is easily answered by many but for me it really depends on my mood, and whats going on in my life at the time. For example when my dad died or now just as my best friend of five years moved the glass is half empty, but when my life is going well like last year when i was always around my best friends and didnt have that much to worry about it was half full for sure.
ReplyDeleteWell..... I'm a moody teenager, I normally think it's half-empty, but sometimes it's half-full. Same as as Caelish, it depends on my mood.
ReplyDeleteIt's always been half-full for me. Like anybody, I've experienced hardships but luckily, I have the ability to look at a situation and say "It could be a heck of a lot worse". So I prefer half-full :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes I feel like my glass is half empty, but like Cassidy said, it could be worse. I must say, I'm not the most optimistic person in the world, but when I look on the bright side of things, I feel better about myself and life.
ReplyDeleteHalf full, like cassidy says, things that are bad could be worse.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty hard to compare our emotions to a glass of orange juice or whatever your prefered beverage might be. I think it really all totally depends on the situation. No one could possibly always be 100% delighted, or sad and bitter. So I say 50/50 I suppose.
ReplyDeleteIts just a glass, its both half full and half empty both are correct. I've never understood why it has reference to your mental state. If that's the case then for me neither half full nor half empty. Its half a cup of a liquid! My mental state at any given point in time can teeter this way or that, and wont apply to a glass's volume.
ReplyDeleteWell it depends what I'm drinking.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I have had a hard time seeing the glass half full. It has taken me a long time to realize that life is only as good as you make it. Having a negative outlook is only going to make a rough patch that much worse. Tomorrow is a new day, and I've learned to not make regrets. The glass is always half full.
ReplyDeleteOkay: to those of you who complain about the impossibility of using a glass as a metaphor for mental state, stop being so fershlugginer literal! It's just a metaphor, people -- and it's a cliche one because it is appropriate, and effective, and thus gets used quite a lot. If you look at something and see what is missing, then you tend to think of the negative things, to look at the dark side: you sit in class longing to be anywhere else, thinking of all the things you could be doing -- but aren't. And the thing that really gets you is that right now, you can't do those things, you aren't doing those things. If you think about all the things you can do, or wait patiently for the future -- in other words, if you enjoy what you have and don't worry about what you don't have, then you tend to be more positive, and you think about what is in the glass, not what isn't. Right?
ReplyDeleteI'm half full when it comes to myself and my family, and half empty when I think about everyone else. The country may be going to heck in a Segway, but I'm pretty peachy.
Yeah I see the glass half empty ALOT! But, I also see it full. This metaphor always reminds me of when I first learned the word optimistic and pestimistic. I was so proud when i knew those bigs words! (I was little lol) Now they mean alot more. But like many of you said, things could always be worst so striving to see it half full is just.... right? I cant think of the word.
ReplyDeleteHalf empty, sadly I am an incurable pessimist.
ReplyDeleteI must say that for the most part, i think of the glass as half empty, but there are times when it can be full.
ReplyDeleteWell this completely depends, are you filling it up or drinking it? This point was just brought up by a guy i was golfing with and makes perfect sense. If you are filling it up its half full and vice versa.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I may seem to be angry or pissed off a lot of the time, I like to think of the world as half full. after you watch a video of animals being skinned alive, there isn't much you can do, but brush it off and keep on living. With a glass half full, why would you want to see it as empty? I would rather concentrate on the liquid than the air. wouldn't you?
ReplyDeleteLately the glass has been half full, but there is always the days that it can be half empty...
ReplyDeleteWell I am generally trying to fill my metaphoric glass. When I am filling something and it is halfway there I think of it as half full. If I was trying to drain it however I would think of it as half empty.
ReplyDeleteI suppose this is because I am an optimist in that I see things and feel that they will have a favorable outcome. Since I am a perfectionist, however, I often do not see things that I do as being as quality as they really are.
Half Full. Who would want a glass half empty?
ReplyDeleteWell, no offense but I hate this question. If you're wondering if I'm an optimist or pessimist. Then I would have to say I'm a pessimist.
ReplyDeleteThe glass hasn't always been this way, but right now it is definitely half empty. I'm just a downer sort of person, ah well.
ReplyDeleteIt is most definitely half full. I love thinking on the brighter side of everything:)
ReplyDeleteThis question is hard for me to answer. I can see the glass half empty one day and the next I'll feel the exact opposite, but for the most part, I like to see things as the glass is half full.
ReplyDeleteDepends on the day :/
ReplyDeletehalf empty if you are drinking from the glass. half full if you are pouring somthing into it
ReplyDeleteI dont really know. half empty for me would be like your taking away from life. and half full would mean your filling up your llife with other things. if that makes any sense.
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