The Family Girl #057: It's Half Full!

The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #57: It's Half Full! To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

It is disheartening at times (lately it's almost all the time), to be reading tales of woe and hardship, of depression and sadness, here in my favorite site. I suppose our community has more than its share of hardship stories. More than other equivalent communities, I'm sure. I can understand that. I've been there, too, after all. But, even so, I wish there were more positive posts. Goodness knows I try to be positive in my blogs as often as I can, if just to provide a contrast to what is apparently the norm now here in the Blogs section of BCTS.

I cannot really comment on how bad it is for some, but I do know that it's quite easy to write about the bad things. And it's sometimes a lot harder to write about the good things, especially if they come all too infrequently (or at least they can appear to).

A lot of people here are supportive to fellow members, especially to those who write about the darker side of life. I just wish these writers who frequently write these dark posts would take a break, and try to post about something more positive for a change.

People take a lot of good things from BCTS, especially the supportive, encouraging comments that people give us all the time. But perhaps it is time to take a break and give something back for a change instead of taking all the time, and maybe write a positive kind of blog next time.

While looking for a nice graphic for the post, I came across something from Sardonic Salad: in it, a scientist, Dr. Hamilton, was taking notes on his latest breakthrough experiment on converting pessimists to optimists. As he observed his test subject flounder in a big glass of water, the test subject yelled, "Half full!! It's half full!!"

Writing too often about depressing things can be self-fulfilling. As Hamlet said in Shakespeare's famous play, "there is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so."

It's time to make a change, I think. Half full is so much better than half empty.
  

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