Half Full or Half Empty

http://www.oprah.com/spirit/optimism-quiz-is-your-glass-half-empty-or-half-full/all

                                                 

What do you see? It's a simple question, and a question we've all heard countless times before, but to me, the idea of half empty or half full never loses its significance. I truly believe that just about every experience we go through happens for a reason, and yes, that includes the negative experiences. That includes losing one of your most important games, that includes losing one of your closest friends, that includes losing the relationship that you thought was the one. It includes everything.

Life teaches us lessons in mysterious ways. However, that is really how you have to look at all your experiences - as lessons. Honestly, the ones that hurt the most are the ones we grow from the most and what we learn the most from. I mean, what do you really learn from passing a drivers test, for example. You learn so much more about yourself and the person you want to be after that first accident, that first wake up call. If you went through life without any mistakes or any hurt, I feel like you would just end up a bland and boring person because you wouldn't really have any tough experiences that mold you into the person you are meant to become. Thats why everyone has tough times. They help us understand ourselves more and what we want out of life, what we want to become in life. When something goes wrong in life, it is the opportunity for a lesson, the opportunity for growth. However, its also a test. Not everyone can look at hard times as something to learn from, which is the sad truth. Some people just accept the pain and become consumed by it and just choose to be sad and not do anything about it. I'm guilty of that myself. However at this point,  I've learned that it is a choice what you do with a negative situation. So when you lose that close friend, you can look at the glass as half empty and be consumed, or you can look at is half full and say, "this is what I learned from this experience, this is how I am going to handle it differently in the future and now I understand myself more and who I want to be." I promise you will be so much better off looking at hard times this way.