FLUID IN THE GLASS

HOW YOU VIEW THINGS depends upon your past experiences and how you have reacted and adjusted to them.  Some people have more positive viewpoints than others.  They are the right-side-of-the-bed types, the hopeful personalities that focus on the bright side of things.  Then there are the dour types who seem to favor a more negative view of life.  They tend to dwell on the bad more than the good.  There is a third possibility recognized by William Arthur Ward:  “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”  The realist considers both the negative and the positive, then adapts accordingly.  He doesn’t ignore the bad stuff, but he looks for a way around it.  He knows it’s there, but he doesn’t allow it to ruin his day.  He works through it.  If you have an ostomy, you are, of necessity, a realist.  You have endured and adapted.  You know that it doesn’t matter whether the glass is viewed as half full or half empty, so long as there is fluid in it.   

It’s the fly and bee theory on people.  People that are flies are attracted to shit (negativity in life) while the people that are bees are attracted to the flowers and producing honey (positivity in life). Thanks to Henry,  I guess there needs to be a third now that sees the shit as fertilizer for the flowers. 🤔😁 Now, the question of the day…..are you (each forum member) a fly or a bee? Be honest. 🐝 

Flies versus bees is pretty much what has plagued humankind since its existence. It's black versus white to the point we become blind to the gray. Personally, I choose the gray.

As Ali so eloquently elucidated: 

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."