Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see,” -Henry David Thoreau I enjoyed Kawabata’s, “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket,” as it elicited great emotion and offered an interesting perspective. In the story, two people look at the same insect yet see two different types. This got me thinking. Isn't it quite often that people can see the same thing but interpret it entirely differently? At the most basic level, we have the never-ending dilemma of the glass being half-full or half-empty. It always has the same amount of water, but 2 people interpret it differently. We also have the opportunity-seekers. A renter tours a smelly home, it has an old kitchen, an out-dated bathroom, overgrown shrubs and thinks, ‘This house is a dump! I would never live in it.’ Meanwhile, the investor sees opportunity. They see that they can give the home a facelift with a new kitchen, an update of the bathroom, an investment in landscaping while make a profit doing so. Again, same hous...
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