Half Full or Half Empty?

If I give you a half bottle of water, will you consider it as half full or half empty? I think it depends on your attitude. If you are a optimist , you may see it as half full, by contrast, if you are a pessimist, you may see it as half empty.

There is a famous saying:A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. That means if a pessimist encounters a chance, he usually thinks it as a difficult, he just considers the difficult part of the chance. On the other side, if an optimist meets a difficulty, he always regards it as a chance, he likes to overcome the challenge and conquers the difficulty.I completely agree with it. The attitudes between them are quite different.

If I can make a choice, I will not hesitate to choose the latter. In my view, it is better to consider a difficulty as a chance than thinking a chance as a difficulty. Take me for instance, when I was a child, my parents forced me to play piano, in fact I didn’t like it at all, but I knew it was beneficial for my future. So I usually encouraged myself: Whatever how hard, I must uphold. When I encountered a complex program, I fostered myself to see it as a chance for me. Finally, I passed the tenth grade, it is also the highest grade in piano. Hence, if you hold an optimistic attitude, it will probably help you succeed.

On the other hand, if you hold a pessimistic approach, chances seem as difficulties to you. My brother sometimes is a pessimist. He is weak at mathematics, so when he does his maths homework, he considers all the exercise problems are difficult, but if he thinks about them carefully, he can solve many of then. Maybe every question is a chance for him, but he regards it as a difficulty. In my view, if he can alter his attitude, he may find much fun in maths and will do better.

Life depends on your attitude to some extent. If you see it as a chance, it may be a real chance to you, by contrast, if you consider it as a difficult, is may change to a difficulty. Therefore, I suggest us to hold a optimistic attitude, only in this way can we make our life more colorful and better.

I have read Ann's and Nick's journals.