I certainly can't argue with any of that, @ksteem. We do choose what we will fill up our lives with, and we should also feel responsible for it, too. The half full half empty glass idea seems to at least seek to take away those choices through deception, along with our responsibility for them. The glass is this way (it's always going to be that), you saw it as this way or that, and that's the way you will always see it (regardless of the circumstances leading up to it or causing it). In addition, we're being told that half empty is always a negative, even if you've had ten filled glasses before it and don't even want to finish the last half. :)