Attitude to age

I have been mulling over my first post and I think people can change. My sister now has a host of serious medical problems but she seems much happier than she used to be. When I visit her, I am always impressed by how stoical she is. When she was young, a headache was always a brain tumour.
I am ecstatic at the moment as I am off to New Zealand on Tuesday for six wonderful weeks in the sun with my lovely family.

Nelliemoser top up the glass with wine and spend some time spoiling yourself. We all feel a bit like that sometimes but you can always come onto GN for some support and hugs

Another Pollyanna here, I have to be as DH is more a glass half empty man and to have two us being gloomy all the time would probably drive us both to suicide.

I am glass half empty right now. I feel a bit as Tanith has described. I vary depending on whether not there is anything really good on the horizon to look forward to.
It goes along with my worrying or ruminating or whatever.

I think I might be a secret glass half empty person, but I fake it and try to be cheerful even if I don't feel it. My sister on the other hand is a full on glass half empty and I have to 'gird my loins' to endure a conversation that consists of half an hour going through her ailments and hospital apps... but at least I realise how trying it is when people whinge and consequently try not to mention ailments and woes when chatting.

Depends on the day?

Well, some people did, last time this type of question was asked!
I am a Pollyana, almost always cheerful - annoyingly so, according to my sister, who enjoys a good wallow in misery.

That "gin" was completely accidental. I am NOT on the hard stuff!!!

And you think anyone is going to admit to being a galss half empty kind of person? [gin]

Mine's white Barrow

I'm quite a positive person and always look for the good things in any situation which sometimes upsets people when they want a bit of a wallow.

My mother once, memorably for me, told me that I was 'Too bloody cheerful for my own good'

I'm not sure it's a characteristic one can choose or cultivate, I think it's innate.