In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
The perennial question is: Is the glass half full or half empty? I recently saw a cartoon with four panels. The first two showed the same glass with the same amount of water. The first said, “the glass is half full”, and the second, “the glass is half empty”. In the third panel, the same water was filling a half-size glass, and the caption said, “the glass has been downsized”. The fourth panel showed a puddle on the table and the caption said, “the glass made a lateral move”. Is the glass half empty or half full? Of course, the answer itself is irrelevant, but the question serves to identify one's perspective. The optimist sees the glass as half full, that there is more to come. The pessimist sees the glass as half empty, that half the water has already been drunk, and what's gone is gone. The Buddhist might just say, “The glass is.” The post-modernist might say, “The glass has as much water as you think it does.” The Hindu might even say, “The glass is an illusion.” To a certain extent, it is all a matter of perspective.
