Half empty, half full glass
The way we look at life is a sequence of half glasses. Half-filled glasses alternated with half-empty glasses. Somewhere in the middle of these alternations we define our happiness, happiness that depends on our ability to see a glass half full, or avoiding seeing the glass half empty. When we want something too much, life at the moment resembles a half-empty glass. When we do not expect or demand much, what we rather perceive is a half-full glass. Few are the ones who look at their glass with the ability to see it full. Hope or ambition, though being different, leads us to look for the half that needs to be filled. There is no harm in this, provided that we do not forget that the existing half should be used, enjoyed and lived. If we bother to look at the half of the existing glass, we may find out that this water is after all an enormous ocean, a sea of life that if we care to dive into will contain an unimaginable amount of things to be lived. This half can b