‘‘Are you a glass half full or a glass half empty sort of person?’’ They ask…

It’s such an old but clever illustration of a positive or negative thinker. But, I also heard somewhere that the glass would be completely useless for this job, without the ‘nothing-ness’ of its core. It would become an ornament, a paperweight.

The glass therefore is totally reliant on its emptiness to function and so whether I think it’s half full or half empty is irrelevant. We could just celebrate the glass itself. 

How delicate it is, whether full or empty. How useful it is to perform its task. How like the Mind it actually is, whether positive or negative, half empty or half full of ideas, imagination, knowledge, it could be celebrated for its ‘potential’.

I know I’m purposely missing the point of the well known analogy, and I’m probably sounding rather pompous.

I guess that might be because I have a sneaky suspicion that I’m a glass half empty kind of person who is trying to blow smoke into my glass to hide this truth.

But maybe we just don’t celebrate what goes on in our ‘Mind’ enough. Maybe ‘glass half empty’ people are just cautious, or even frugal, wanting to polish off the last of the prosecco (insert preferred beverage here) before deciding whether they want to fill the glass again.

I’ll give it a go….I’ll try to look for the potential my mind presents.

I’ll examine my ‘glass’ and the possibility that my thinking patterns are honourable and empathetic (after all filling someone’s glass when too much has already been consumed is ill-advised)

Yes, that certainly feels better, much more positive.

And actually you know, glasses are rather beautiful aren’t they…