Positive Thinking - Meaning

“This glass is half-full” – This is positive thinking according to many people including personality development gurus, and other motivational speakers. Whenever a person looks at “half-empty”, these gurus jump to conclusion immediately and say that’s the reason all the negative manifestations you have in your life. When did it become a negative thinking when a truth is expressed? Isn’t the glass full-empty to start with? If I say that “today is a cold day” in winter on a very cold day, do I become a negative person or a negative thinker?

Or for example, take this situation. There are four people and each of them is very hungry. They can each eat one full burger. They have only two burgers. How do they feel, or how should they feel after eating equally? They should feel that and be happy about that they at least are half-stomach-full? They will feel that they are still hungry. Don’t they? Now, all of them became negative thinkers, right? You got it plain wrong.

Let me explain.

Who came up with Half Full is positive thinking, and why? Did you understand it or just repeating? There is nothing wrong if you look at it as half-empty. The reason for that is it is not manifesting negative things for you in your life. But, if you look at problem or something wrong in each situation even though there is a positive to take, then, you need to revive your thinking. Acknowledge the negative in a situation, but, take any lesson that the situation is trying to teach you. This makes you a positive thinker. Just acknowledging the problem, or identifying a negative point in a situation, doesn’t make you a negative person. But, never be afraid of telling the truth, even if it is something negative. For example, if a person is drowning in a swimming pool, say it, just don’t say, he is half-outside, so swimming. Hope you catch the point.