Half Full or Half Empty?

The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is what you make of it. This is true. If you strive to perceive the world in a brighter light, the world will be a better place. Perspective really does affect your way of life. Happiness is not given to you, it is something you strive for. And part of that is making the effort to find the joy around you.

"Every cloud has a silver lining" You’ve probably heard that a million times, but again it’s something to live by. If you take the time to find the little piece of good in every situation, event, or person, you will end up surrounded by silver. Often the silver lining is hard to find, our emotions tend to steer us to darkness, but by using your mind, you can seek out the hidden good.

Keeping a positive perspective is not only good for you own physical and emotional health, but it helps those around you as well. If you continually point out the good in life, people will begin to see it for themselves.

Some people say that optimistic people are often unrealistic, living on cloud 9 because they hold hope at times when all seems hopeless or believe in things that seem impossible. Optimism is not fantasy. Optimists seek to find the good in everything, this is a completely real and logical action that actually works. As far as hope and faith, optimists may seem to have more of these things than other people, especially when times are hardest. It does not mean that they are being unreal, it simply means that based on experience (because they’ve always found the good in things), they know that some good will come out of whatever happens.

C'est la vie!