Here’s a video I made a while ago talking about ways of looking at things (in relation to the glass of water). In any case, best wishes and hope you have a wonderful day!
Different ways to perceive a glass (or spoon)
- The glass is half full of water
- An optimist
- It’s a true statement, but …
- The glass is half empty
- A pessimist
- It’s a true statement, too, but …
- The glass is full
- A realist
- This is encompasses more of the truth than the other two statements. The glass is (about) half full of water and half full of air.
- What one person perceives as a “glass with water” may be completely different than how another person sees the “glass with water”
- A subjectivist
- This may be true, and can be internally consistent in a philosophical sense, though probably not too practical (plus it sort of gives me a headache haha)
- In some cases, I think it’s good to be able to perceive things in this way – but as an alternate way of seeing things, not as the default way of see things
- Does a person fundamentally think this is an “imaginary” existence or just there’s no way to prove that 2 people actually see (or don’t see) the same thing?
- Again a very interesting idea, but I’m not sure if it has of day-to-day practicality for most people.
- The glass is imagined/doesn’t really exist, etc
- An existentialist (?), etc
- This may or may not be true, it’s hard to prove – and doesn’t really affect the present, other than what a person is thinking about the present.
- While potentially internally logically consistent, it doesn’t really change the day-to-day reality of things,
- unless you’re in a movie called the Matrix 🙂
- How does a person know if they are imagining things or just that they are imagining that they are imagining things?
- For me, it just (on a day-to-day basis) leads me to accept reality for what it mostly seems to be, unless I first-hand experience a perceivable phenomena that suggests otherwise.
- The glass and water and air are really all just the same particles
- This would be called a physicist 🙂
- This is also true, but not really practical for most day-to-day situations unless a person is thinking about particle physics, etc
- Who really cares, I want to think about something else!
- A stubborn, independent thinker who doesn’t want to be distracted ? hahah
- Don’t think just Observe. Feel the glass and water and air. Experience the moment!
- People who want to “stay in” the present.
- Please check out my article on leading with heart
- The glass and you and the universe are all one
- Zen masters, Yoda, etc
- Lonnie Liston Smith has a beautiful, great song that talks about this …
- Dude, that’s super deep bro!
- A surfer dude (at least at heart) 🙂
- Huh, what was the chord you just played before you started talking about food? Wait it there food – let’s take a quick break ….
- A musician hahahah
The Glass is Full!
For some more ideas about musicality, etc: