Is Your Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

Q: Is the glass half full or half empty?

A: It really depends on what kind of antidepressants you are on. My dad says red wine has the same effect. Because the more wine you drink, the more full the "glass" is because your outlook on life is more positive. But mom says dad's got it all wrong - the more you drink, the more empty your glass gets, but dad says that's not a bad thing because there's always enough wine to fill the cup back up, and thus you can always have a positive outlook on life. But mom says when you have to keep filling your glass up, you must not have a very fulfilling life. But dad says wine helps fill up one's "cup" and now I don't know what the heck either of them are talking about. Come to think of it, mom doesn't drink wine at all. And god love her, she tries really really hard, but the 'ole "glass" could use a fill up sometimes, dad says...know what I'm sayin'?

Anyway, let me set the record straight for these 2 icky love birds. Few drinks are expected to take up half of the glass, really. If one is expecting a normal drink, one is expecting a full drink. If one sees the drink at half capacity and declares it to be half full, they are making the implicit admission that it is half more than what they expected or are currently imagining. In other words, half full is only half full when compared to a glass that is completely empty. This "completely empty" alternative is what one has in mind when they declare a drink to be half full.

Soooooo, the moral of the story is: just take an antidpressant and your glass will never be completely empty.

Hiccup.