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is the glass half full or half empty ?

ninjadanslarbretabar

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goodmorning,
so, is the glass half full or half empty ?

one is associated with optimism the other with pessimism but what if i think that the glass is half filled ?
and it makes me happy so it makes it seem like im optimist but nah
one is about the past, its half empty because you drank half of it
the other is about the future because you still have half of it left
but if you stay in the present both side balance each other
you are balancing yourself between the past and the future

and why would you not be in the present moment ?
maybe because you are thinking about events of the past or of the future and you are putting energy there, be it good or bad energy
and its essential to think about stuff now and then for the sake of resolving problem and organize stuff, but we have a tendency to get caught up in it
like if you play tetris for too long and you get to bed youll see freakin block falling down and you cant help but move them around
and we are over expose to all this information with all that media and technology in this age of information
we keep thinking and it gets hard to balance yourself and keep still in the moment
but all that energy you put elsewhere is energy you dont put on yourself
stress is bad, it takes away energy that should go to your immune system, it makes you digest less efficiently so you dont get as much energy out of your food and it makes your sleep less rejuvenating
so the more stress you produce the more you deteriorate your quality of life
the more you can balance yourself between the past and the future, the more you can be in the moment
and the more benefit you can gain, and that makes you happy in itself
so i think that balancing yourself is better than being optimistic
its the healthy alternative to the other two
 
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i agree, nice past/future description. that's a new one for me. i've always looked at the question in an atomic scale. One could say that of all things, the great majority of it is actually empty space, that which separates the atomic nucleus from the orbiting electrons, etc. But i'd rather fill that void with the function of the larger scales. The atoms that make up anything works for the functioning of the whole. Stuff is more than just the sum of the parts, you know?
 
Yeah it's an interesting description I never thought about it that way. I've usually tended to think that everything is good all the time as long as I ; but in my experience sometimes things just seem pretty lousy. But each half somehow contains the other half and when things seem dark it means they will at some point seem better, and when things are great it means that eventually there will be issues that arise. At least that's how things have always cycled, it could just all be my perspective that makes things appear to be one way or the other. And that brings me more peace somehow because things are always the same in a way because they are always shifting in one direction or another.
 
Perhaps if the glass was full to begin with, its volume is decreasing and hence half empty. If it was dry to start, then perhaps its now half full.

Or maybe the semantics are a distraction from more important issues:

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The glass itself isn't empty or full. Glass doesn't really have that kind of property. Its just the opinion of humans that tubes of glass are meant to hold water.
 
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