Is your glass half empty or half full ?
According to the Cambridge Dictionary of Everyday Idioms:
A ‘glass-half-full person’ is an optimist, someone who always thinks that good things will happen.
Meanwhile, a ‘glass-half-empty person’ is a pesimist, someone who always thinks that bad things will happen. The idea here is that two people can look at the same glass and see completely different things. The optimist sees only the drink that is still there and the pessimist only the drink that has gone. To express the same idea, people sometimes remark that a particular person’s ‘glass is always half full/empty’.
There is a funny film describing the possible origin of being an optimist or a pesimist and about the consequences of having one of these attitudes. You can watch it here:
źródło:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n2tmNWn1ec
Whatever the theories are, from my point of view being an optimistic helps. I believe that just like kind, helpful words have a great advantage over negative ones, the same happens with optimistic people. They make that the world seems to be more bearable.
Can we learn to be more optimistic then? Why not to try?
Here is The Optimist Creed I found somewhere in the Internet many years ago. It's the text of Christian D. Larson published for the first time in 1912 in his book "Your Forces and How to Use Them".
Promise
Yourself . . .
To be so strong that
nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only
the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about
your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater
achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living
creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time
to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and
too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in
loud words, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you
are true to the best that is in you."
P.S. Although it doesn't seem to be easy, sounds good...
Is your glass half empty or half full ?
According to the Cambridge Dictionary of Everyday Idioms:
A ‘glass-half-full person’ is an optimist, someone who always thinks that good things will happen.
Meanwhile, a ‘glass-half-empty person’ is a pesimist, someone who always thinks that bad things will happen. The idea here is that two people can look at the same glass and see completely different things. The optimist sees only the drink that is still there and the pessimist only the drink that has gone. To express the same idea, people sometimes remark that a particular person’s ‘glass is always half full/empty’.
Meanwhile, a ‘glass-half-empty person’ is a pesimist, someone who always thinks that bad things will happen. The idea here is that two people can look at the same glass and see completely different things. The optimist sees only the drink that is still there and the pessimist only the drink that has gone. To express the same idea, people sometimes remark that a particular person’s ‘glass is always half full/empty’.
There is a funny film describing the possible origin of being an optimist or a pesimist and about the consequences of having one of these attitudes. You can watch it here:
źródło:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n2tmNWn1ec
Whatever the theories are, from my point of view being an optimistic helps. I believe that just like kind, helpful words have a great advantage over negative ones, the same happens with optimistic people. They make that the world seems to be more bearable.
Can we learn to be more optimistic then? Why not to try?
Here is The Optimist Creed I found somewhere in the Internet many years ago. It's the text of Christian D. Larson published for the first time in 1912 in his book "Your Forces and How to Use Them".
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you."
P.S. Although it doesn't seem to be easy, sounds good...
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