The Hubs mentioned to me over the weekend that I am a "glass half empty" kind of girl. For a second it took me for a loop. Then I regained consciousness and realized that maybe I really am.
When I am told that something MIGHT happen or it MIGHT NOT happen. I think the worst. I run the the worst scenarios in my head and I always end up expecting the worst. For example, when Zane fell out of the bath tub and bumped his head on the toilet. I instantly thought he had a concussion so I didn't let him go to sleep until late Friday night. I worried when he did go to sleep that something bad would happen. It didn't and I know that I shouldn't worry like that but I do. Or one time when I was a teenager we played hide and go seek in the house with no lights on. I hid behind the bathroom door. When the seeker pushed the door, it peeled my toe nail off. I feared that I would never have a toe nail there again and that I would have ugly feet for the rest of my life. It grew back and I don't have ugly feet.
Pessimism (glass half empty)
Optimism (glass half full)
Honestly, I ride the fence. I can look back on situations where I expect the best outcome then there are others when I have expected trouble as the outcome. With this being said I tell you that I am very happy with life and not the least depressed as some think that "glass half empty" kind of people are. My cup runs over. I am completely happy with the way things are going and I always try to live for the moment!
Want to know how full your glass is? Take this test! I took the test that had 15 questions and I had six optimistic answers and nine pessimistic answers. Let me know what you think and if you took the test! Does it really reflect what you thought?
Pessimism (glass half empty)
Optimism (glass half full)
Honestly, I ride the fence. I can look back on situations where I expect the best outcome then there are others when I have expected trouble as the outcome. With this being said I tell you that I am very happy with life and not the least depressed as some think that "glass half empty" kind of people are. My cup runs over. I am completely happy with the way things are going and I always try to live for the moment!
Want to know how full your glass is? Take this test! I took the test that had 15 questions and I had six optimistic answers and nine pessimistic answers. Let me know what you think and if you took the test! Does it really reflect what you thought?
Oh wow - I'm a pessimist! That can't be true - lol
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo - it says I can change that! So here's to becoming optimistic ;)
I got 12 optimistic!!! I'm a glass half full type of gal. Ok in all honesty a lot of the questions mentioned something about luck. I decided earlier this year that there is no such thing as luck. I cut that word out of my vocabulary. Why? Because I truly believe God is in control of everything. If you feel lucky, well that's being blessed :) You feel unlucky, well God is trying to tell you it wasn't right. Adapting this train of thought has really changed my perspective. LOVE YA BOO!!
ReplyDeleteI also had 6 & 9. However I was told the other day, a new answer for the half full/half empty thing.... Think of things as neither one... the glass is always totally full, full of air and water.
ReplyDeleteI got 11 optimistic our of 15! I have always been a look on the bright side kind of girl!
ReplyDeleteWow, we are more alike than I thought! I got 6 optimistic and 9 pessimistic too. I guess I am more apt to think that if good things happen to me, it is because I either worked hard for them that day or because "luck" (which like Jen I attribute to God) had a hand in it. I am less inclined to think that good things happen because I am such a wonderful person that they should happen to me. Ha! I don't necessarily think it is a bad thing to look at things either way though, but it was fun to do the test. I say if my glass is half empty, that waitress better be coming by my table soon if she wants a tip! ;-)
ReplyDeleteFunny. Dan tells me the same thing. Hmmm. Off to take that silly test and prove him wrong!
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So, if you had asked me three years ago, I would have said that I am a glass half empty girl. But Van is so pessimistic, I find myself being MORE optimistic to help lift his mood and my own. I would have absolutely said I'm more optimistic now, and that it has a lot to do with Jesus being in my heart now. :) But..I took the test, just to kicks. And I got the same results as you - 9 pessimistic and 6 optimistic. But...I think that you and I BOTH are more realistic than pessimistic. Perhaps it's just that society is in a bad place right now, and we recognize that. It doesn't make us unhappy. :)
ReplyDeleteFabulous post!
I only got 5 optimistic ones!!!! but i don't feel like a Pessimist! I am super outgoing but I think the worst but that helps be do much better in life. I am now a little disappointed in myself cause personally I am not a debbie downer. Now I am going to go around being too happy! lol I don't want to be a pessimist!
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