Glass Half Way

Someone sent me, this week, a compilation of comments by
(supposed) engineers, architects, others. On describing the glass, the engineer's comment was - The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

I liked seeing that. Not that I think precisely that, but that it tweaked my view.

I can't find my glasses so it's hard for me to see the point here. Does that still make me a pessimist?

When pressed I would ultimately agree with this, combined with the comments of Phoenix32890, since the logic is sound,
- but don't let that stand in the way of people making pessimist vs optimist vs engineer jokes.
I'm enjoying it.

I wrote this little thing as a reaction against those who don't see the positive to being negative (or at least look negatively on it), but of course you can have a foolish pessimist and also a wise pessimist, or a wise optimist and a foolish optimist.
So wisdom or foolishness don't depend on your polarity on a doom and gloom scale.
I hope I haven't gone and pooped my own party...

I love this TV show 'Dead Like Me', about reapers. They are undead, but still need jobs, to keep the cashflow happening. The lead character works at a place called 'Happy Time', which is anything but happy. Her boss is the ultimate fake positive personality, complete passive-aggressive, and occasionally slips into diatribe about when she used to be on cocaine, and is much happier now. Great friggin' show...

i like coloring books :-)

most of the time i'm very much an optimist...but when i'm being pessimistic...ooohhhhh...i'm very pessimistic

The glass has water in it, it doesn't come to me to figure out half full or empty. If thirsty, I drink.


Yeah............. ok.

Twyvel came closest to the reply that makes the most sense.....the glass that is half full is half empty at the same time.

Optimists and pessimists are only seeing half the picture.

Is the glass half full or half empty? Its both.

Is there an inbetween?
An 'Omnimist'?
- or a 'Unimist?



Ah, Coool...
-but will it be enough?

What are you if you look at the glass and just think "Someone drank out of that?"

smart

I'm with Terry Pratchett - half full??? that's not my glass - my glass was full.

I like Twyvel's response best:

"In fact a glass is always full. What it contains is another matter."

A glass is always full. It might contain air and liquid for example ...... Half full does not necessarily mean that its contents are palatable as
an optimist might assume!

Well, then you have to start asking about the meaning of the word "full". If you want to look at it that way, it has no meaning at all.

Is a glass' fullness of being compromised by having a piece broken off, as in a chip? Or is it still fully Glass despite that?

I'm glad that a nearby pessimist made sure my glass is half full. Less for me to spill when I'm having one of my overly positive moments.


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Did I get any on you?

ehBeth....as a pessimist, I enjoy the elevating company of optimists.......

I never understood this question. When someone is halfway to a destination, they are in the middle. That is why it is halfway and not closer to one end or the other.