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Would the human race be better off viewing the proverbial glass half-empty instead of full?  

We all know that negativity has its downsides. We're no fun at a party. We're glum and depressed, we quibble and grumble and nitpick the details, we overreact, and our cynicism--chronic, pervasive--means we will sour you and 

For those of us with a glass half-full, we're oh so delightful to be around. Our disposition, if slightly out of touch, is warm and generous. Our permanently stretched smiles offer syrupy platitudes, and a lighthearted buoyancy keeps us afloat in blinding, sunny idealism.

Is it better to burst with life for a short window with an explosion of marvelous beauty, only to bloom out and die? Or is it better to be a slightly wilted flower, unappealing to flower-gatherers, unappetizing for grazing predators, but whose muted blossom goes on and on, to stay and witness the garden's long and miraculous splendor? 

Perhaps it would be b;/l''''''''////etter for the human race to see the world as glass-half-empty? 

So for all you grouches, eyores, and grinches out there: perhaps the Earth would prefer a lifetime of a realist's melancholy over a dreamer's blind naivety. 


you sour the mood.No one likes a grouse. We grumble and complain, We're prone to depression and  and when you speak your truth, people call it grumbling. and 

Then there are some of us who go through life with a sunny disposition, blinding idealism and ebullient sweetness that makes everyone and everything for all time seem okay, permanently stretched smiles with syrupy  lightheartedness, joyful buoyant ebullient upbeat stunningly naive and but  out of touch with reality, permanent grins on their face to 
We love milk and drink lots of it, and when it's gone we we want us and all our friends to have more. There's plenty of delicious milk for everyone. Right? RIGHT?