What is your cup (of life)?

Jane, I miss wobblybits.

At a company I once worked at I was asked by the boss if I was on drugs because I was always ? ?

Definitely half full. I have learned ,from experience, not to worry. Thinks are, mostly, never as bad as my imagination could make them. I have a very happy marriage ( 53yrs) and great children, and grandchildren . Also super SiL and DiL.

Three quarters full with a dash of realism. My problems are my problems and I deal with them. Nothing was ever made better by moaning so I put on a happy face and always try to have a positive outlook. Hey I ain't dead yet so there's always hope.

Half empty mostly; I worry about just about everything and if there isn’t anything I’ll invent it! DH is exactly opposite - nothing ever seems to phase him.

You always come across as the very opposite of superficial and insensitive kitty

I describe myself as an optimist but a realistic one, so I’m not sure where that puts me in the cup scenario. - half full (ish)? I do worry about some things but tend not to actively “fret” for too long. Maybe that makes me shallow and insensitive like Kitty...who isn’t!

I think you are born optimistic or pessimistic, or develop a certain way of thinking from early childhood experiences. I would love to be a glass half full person, and don't present I think, as a misery guts, but always over think situations looking for problems. I need to have a coping mechanism if things go wrong.

I don't necessarily see pessimism as a bad trait.
I don't drag people down with constant moaning (i hope!)
I just grimly expect the worst, and I have to say, I'm not often disappointed!

I always hope for the best but plan for the worst.

In a way, pessimism is rather liberating.
I don't have to worry, "what if?", I just plan for "when".

I agree. If you always fear the worst and it doesn't happen that's great. If it does happen, well then it was only what you expected!

I am optimistic. If I were a pessimist the same things would have happened to me, but I’ve been happy until they did.

Anyone know what happened to Wobblybits, I suddenly realised he /she wasn't on GN anymore ?

The last I heard he was going to have another hip replacement. He was very helpful and supportive when I had to have my first knee replacement. He's had several names though over the years. Maybe he's still lurking? I hope so.

wobblybits sense of humour upset some people as they saw it as being Un pc. I miss him.

my beloved Dad (who would be celebrating his 100th birthday today!) used to say of me …….."you would laugh if your backside was on fire!"

That'll be half full for me then.

I am a glass half empty/pessimistic person who wishes I were the opposite.

This could be because of bad things that have happened in the past that I would be able to deal with better now that I'm older. However where the issue is something I have no control over the pessimism remains......

I've been trying to persuade myself to become an optimist because I imagine that optimists don't get as stressed as I do and after all - we've both got the same chance of being right/wrong about the future.

Do the glass half fulls here see themselves as getting less stressed than others and dealing with it better?

Definatly a half empty having been married to a half full.
Now a matter of living with it. I can't see myself ever changing.

My cup runneth over: with love, good health, contentment, kindness, stability, no worries, family and friends...not forgetting valued aquaintances here on GN.

That will make you an optimist then gabriella!

That is a very long motto you have got there M0nica. By the time that has been rattled out you would be under the proverbial bus. (At the moment my cup runneth over with spells for pestulance so that a certain ars..le loses bits). Definitely not a Pollyanna.

Always half full, the eternal optimist
Good health, good wife, good family I have been very fortunate.

I’m usually an optimist, but after this year, the worst one
for years, I’ve really tried to look forward to the future, and say “this too will pass”.
Having said that, when I read some of the awful problems
fellow gransnetters have encountered I think of the saying
“ there’s always someone worse off then yourself”.
Friends, retail therapy, ? and wine have all helped to get me through.

To the outside world I'm fine and dandy......
Paddling like mad to stay afloat in my head though.
I'm realistic I think. But experiences can definitely tinge the rosy hue.