A "Half Filled Glass" or A "Half Empty" One ??
If there is a glass which is half filled with water, one person looks at it as “A half empty glass” while other looks at it as “Half full glass”.
The people who look at the half filled glass enjoy life and feel cheerful. You can always see a cute smile on their face.
While those who look at the half vacant glass always keep cribbing about life. You must have observed people saying :
- My life sucks
- I am not happy with my life
- Why do bad things always happen to me
- Life is unfair to me
Or, you might find them giving excuses for one thing or another. These are the people who do not fix the problem but try to fix the blame on one thing or the other.
- I do not have a good memory.
- I am poor because I do not have a good education background.
- I cant do it, I don’t think I have enough courage for that.
- I am not rich because of my destiny.
The point is, looking at the negative side of things don’t lead them anywhere, In fact they lose opportunities by looking at the negative side.
Here is how one of my friend lost an opportunity because of her negative attitude :
Recently, I had attended a seminar on Public Speaking in Delhi in India. The speaker was Winner of 1990, Toastmasters World Champion in Public Speaking & Coach of 7 World Champions of Public Speaking.
The timings for the seminar were 7 P.M to 9 P.M. One of my friends was supposed to arrive at the seminar. Her plan was to first reach her home(from office) and then come to the seminar. But she reached her home from office at 7:30 P.m, The seminar hall was just 10 minutes drive from her home.
She thought – “Oh, its already 7:30, the seminar is almost half over, there would not be any use going to the seminar”, so she did not go to the seminar.
Another friend of mine also got late to the seminar because he had some last minute work at the office. He reached at the seminar at 8 P.M. He still attended 50% of the seminar and benefited from it.
I had a talk with him regarding this, he said : “Something is better than nothing”
And after the seminar, he applied some of the learning’s to his public speeches and won several Best Speaker awards at the Toastmasters meetings.
Its all about the attitude. The situation was same for both of them, one of them looked at the positive side, another cribbed about the negative side.
Which side will you prefer to ‘look at’ in your life ??
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The same is true with life… if we are at our best and we degrade, it is half empty.. But, if we are from nothing and getting better, we are taking the half full side.
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By the way very well put .
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Being positive is one of the best thing in life
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like for instances had ur friend reached earlier for the seminar.. he might have not liked it and half way through left it and missed the part which was beneficial for him..
lovely post
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@Rogue : I agree by what u said, However let me offer a different perspective : Abraham Lincoln failed many times befor he became the president. Although he was failing, but he still kept looking at the glass as “Half Full”
@ani : I always love your comments over here. I must tell u – The seminar was awesome, but yeah – sometimes things happen for a reason
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guess u’ll write up about that soon.. take care
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We will only attract positive things if we think positive.
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Saying to be positive is very easy… doing it is another story. I am ot saying that it is wrong for I am a positive person and always smiling and happy… but it has its setbacks when people believe that you don’t have problem.. believe me!
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While many have read this post, I see just 11 responses above…
That picture reminded A “Half Filled Glass” or A “Half Empty” One ??
While reading about the magical impact of the positive attitude on our life, we comfort just our own ear and learn a little in the result, but you kindly guard us from falling into such trap by inviting us to leave the comments. Thank you. The voiced response is A “Half Filled Glass” out of itself – it’s our choice that warms the heart (the application of theory to the practice)
Let me invite you to my blog arthiker
I hope you will enjoy the artworks you will find in the archives and thus our joy will be the mutual.
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Very Well Said, The application of theory to practice is very important, because that is the only thing by which we learn and get experience to enrich our lives.
I am glad u have been reading and liking other posts at my blog
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I’m the type of person that says, either way you look at it it’s half..but I don’t think that I’m much for cliches..I guess I just think life is more complex than being able to sum it up in a few words..
Can we ever consider obtaining a “full glass”..
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Richness and poorness aren’t something destined. It’s fated… err no. If you think yourself rich, you are. If you don’t think so, you don’t. Again, it’s how you see the situation.
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