I have always been a half full kind of person. I think practically every situation can have something positive result.
I recently met an older gentlman around my parents age. This man and I both seemed to have the gift of the gab so we started talking and he told me part of his life story.
Although I only knew him for about 30 min I consider him a friend and he had positivesness just radiating from him.
He told me he grew up in an orphange then later in a foster home. Despite this or maybe because of it he made a conscius (sp wr) to not become bitter. He told me when he was a young man way before he became a husband and father. He decided what type of parent/spouse he wanted to be. He wanted to be positive and loving.
This man had a profound effect on me. He was amazing. I have met other people like this through out my life. Sometimes I think people are meant to cross over paths to teach us something. I surely learned something from him today.
Meaghan
Hi the person that wrote AND didnt mean it the way you took it. I am having problems with my computer screen bleeping of the screen. so i post my comment in 3 installments.
I am always a half full person. I try to find positive in everything. No point in being negative, only brings me down and everyone else around me down. Happiness can be contagious!!!! Which is a good thing.....:)
M
Personally, your story makes my heart so happy. I am definitely a half full kind of person, and meeting people like that and hearing stories like that give me nothing but hope! Thanks for asking such a sweet and simple question (and giving me a nice story for the day)!
Edited after your post...I was trying to figure it out...thanks so clarification! :)
I agree with you, C..
I personally think that we come across certain people for a reason.
You will never forget this man and his story and I think that's a beautiful thing. Sometimes we need people, even strangers, to give us some perspective on things when we get to feeling down about our own situations. Even if we aren't feeling down, there's nothing wrong with an uplifting "refill" once in a while.
People have affects on us for many different reasons. The positive ones always touch me too.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Best wishes.
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Ah, okay, you completed your story. Nice story.
Hi C.! I am both types at different times but I try to be the half full. I believe in God and the power of the Holy Spirit so I definitely believe people come in and out of our lives for a reason even if i don't understand it at the time. You are open enough to see the gift of this man's life as it intertwined (is that a word?) with yours even if for a short time....that is a gift all in itself...you are positive person. I take this a step further in parenting. I ask my children to decide what type of person they are when they have to deal with something or someone difficult...take responsibilty for who you want to be and let the other person take responsibility for who they have decided to be. Thanks for the post! M.
Hi interesting question. Unlike others I think I am a half empty type person. I tend to look at things from a more negative perspective. I think this is due to my past. I have chosen over and over to change and it happens slowly, but i wish I could just easily see only the positive in every situation like others say they do. I have to make a daily conscience choice to look at things positively and I often still can't always do it. I try to read positive things and inspirational things and i try really hard to be positive with my kids, but life experience and perhaps inborn traits? keep me from this naturally. I really envy people who don't have to work at this. I wish my life had been different sometimes but for the most part I am thankful for all of it because it taught me a lot too. I too think every situation can have something positive but the ability to easily find that often escapes me and i have to think or search hard for the positive that seems to come easily to so many others.
I am a half full person. You learn from the bad and make something good out of it so you can teach others. Many times lately people tell me that I make them feel good or have shown them how to be a stronger independent person.
Life is too short to think about the bad all the time. If you have a bad experience find something good in it. It may be that you have to learn patience or persistance to go to the next level but you will make it in God's time.
My best to you all.
The other S.
PS Your trials and tribulations make you the person you become later in life so be a positive influence on all around you. Also stop and smell the roses along the way.
lol. I'm with page... and...??? :)
I see the glass as not only half full, but a full pitcher of lemonade. :)
Thanks for sharing!
You made my day and you also made me remember another time in my life....
In my late 20's or so I distinctly remember realizing that there seemed to be only two kinds of old people - the nicer, happier ones and the bitter, crankier kinds. And not much in between.
I started to survey people and keep a mental tab. The sweeter older people, a rank I hope to join one day, seemed to have the ability like you to see their cups as always half full, that there is a positive side or lesson to be learned to every hardship, and most importantly, they constructively and consciously decided to deal with difficult issues from their past.
The negative, sour old farts, still blamed others for their failings and did not seem to see their contribution to their own lives.
