Glass Half Full or Half Empty ? A different Perspective

Is the Glas half empty or Half full ? a New look at an old adage .....

Is the glass half empty or half full ? Many a times this question is asked to bring out the contrast between the negative way of thinking and the positive way of thinking .

A negative thinker will be sad to see that the glass is half empty so whatever the nourishment that the glass once held , half has ben drained away . He will look at the empty party and shed tears .

His counterpart , the positive thinker will look at the same glass and will be overjoyed to note that it is half full . He will be thankful to get the half glass of nourishment .

Plethora of trainers , motivators , and gurus subtly or bluntly suggest that the latter type of thinking is better than the former and that approach so called as positive approach needs to be followed .

Herein lies the catch !

Neither of the two is holistic thinking . Each one is only looking at a part of the reality and that is why prone to vacillation between joy and sorrow , positive and negative , plus and minus . We are not looking at reality in holistic fashion. Both the fellows are attaching importance only to the liquid in the glass and are not giving any consideration to the air in the other half of the glass . In reality the glass is always full as it cannot remain empty . A glass is empty space and on earth it is filled in with air if nothing else . We are discarding the air , such a important ingredient in our life , from the equation . When we begin to consider it , only then our thinking will tend to become holistic and meaningful in the given circumstances .