At a meeting recently someone mentioned the much used analogy of the glass being half full or half empty. Reflecting on the meeting, a thought crossed my mind. Is it necessary that seeing the glass as half full is being optimistic and half empty pessimistic? Can it not be that seeing it half empty is actually the ability to see the available potential for greater fullness? Also what is the frame of reference? If the frame of reference is changed to air then the glass is full irrespective of the amount of water! Indeed the half is only in reference to the size of the glass. The same amount of water in a glass half the size is a full glass (which only has the potential to become more empty - but is that being pessimistic?!).
What do you think?
