{"id":54039,"date":"2016-01-07T02:55:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T07:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=54039"},"modified":"2016-01-06T22:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T03:39:36","slug":"why-the-glass-is-always-totally-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2016\/01\/07\/why-the-glass-is-always-totally-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Glass is Always Totally Full"},"content":{"rendered":"
In response to A New View of Losing Years of Work<\/a>, a reader named Ann sent us this perfect cartoon and commentary:<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure this link<\/a>* will take you to the place I intend. I want to link you to the cartoon that shows a man tied to a chair while masked men steal his tv. It\u2019s another attempt to see the possible positive side of an unplanned and involuntary loss of \u201cstuff.\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n It also reminds me a response to the old question \u201cIs the glass half full or half empty?<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Answer:\u00a0\u201cThe glass is always totally full:\u00a0half with liquid, half with air.<\/strong>\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n Just think of all the air you can fit into your glass when you get rid of the liquid! Of course, this is all easy for me to say as I sit here with all my \u201cstuff\u201d firmly in place.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/a><\/p>\n I have never heard that wonderful\u00a0answer.<\/p>\n A few days later, Ann sent an addendum, commenting on my statement that \u201cI might have nothing to show for years of writing, thinking, finding, corresponding, designing\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019d like to remind you that you\u2019d still have a lot to show for your years of work: friends you\u2019ve made, changes you\u2019ve made to your life and abode, memories of the posts, the knowledge that you have improved and inspired other peoples lives. A few days ago I used \u201cWhat\u2019s not wrong<\/a>?\u201d in a conversation with a friend who was having a meltdown. Thank you for that post<\/a>, and for so many others that I have used to improve my life. And remember, throughout most of the history of human beings we have lived, and thrived, without physical and digital archives.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Editor’s note: the cartoon\u00a0is from the New Yorker’s great January Cartoon Issue<\/a>. We found it and printed it above.<\/p>\n Thanks Ann!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In response to A New View of Losing Years of Work, a reader named Ann sent us this perfect cartoon and commentary: I\u2019m not sure this link* will take you to the place I intend. I want to link you to the cartoon that shows a man tied to a chair while masked men steal…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":54040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,6549,780],"tags":[9293,9294,6037],"yoast_head":"\n