Empty coffee cup
Is not a glass half empty
Which might be better
2 responses to “The Half-Empty Paradox”
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What a quietly profound little piece this is.
The empty coffee cup does not carry the weight of pessimism the way the half empty glass does. It carries something else entirely. Completion. The proof that something was fully consumed, fully enjoyed, fully lived. The glass half empty is a story of what remains and what was lost. The empty cup is a story of what was enough.
There is something in choosing the empty cup as your symbol that says more about a person than most long conversations do. It means you are not measuring what is gone. You are sitting with what was.
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[…] Wednesday is my lazy haiku day and this week I wrote something I have called The Half-Empty Paradox. Which sounds intriguing, does it […]
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