The purpose of getting a blog...

Originally I thought that it would be pretty cool to get a blog as I thought that it would be a good outlet for all the random rubbish that I come up with (or someone else comes up with but is still awesome), however, it seems that I have misunderstood the purpose of a blog. 

After having a look at various other blogs by using the 'Next Blog»' button, I realised that the purpose of having a blog was to inform the world of the progress of your pregnancy or how quickly your 3 year old daughter is growing. 

Unfortunately, I am not suitably equipped to write about such things, so I think I shall use this blog as I originally intended, and hopefully when I am old I will read this blog (or get one of my slaves/descendants to read it for me) and think about how awesome I was.

A Dream

From the Korean movie A Bittersweet Life (2005)

On a late autumn night a disciple suddenly woke up crying, so the master asked the disciple, "Did you have a nightmare?"

"No." the disciple replied

"Did you have a sad dream?"

"No"

"Then why are you crying so sadly?"

The disciple wept his tears away and answered, "The dream I had will never come true."

The Glass Is Never Half Empty

Often in order to determine whether you are an optimist or a pessimist, someone may take a glass and fill it with water till it is half full and ask you if you see the glass as half full or half empty.

If you see the glass as half full you are said to be an optimist

If you see the glass as half empty you are said to be a pessimist

However, as a pessimist, I feel that the glass is always half full and cannot be half empty. My logic for this can be explained through the following:

Consider a glass that is full of water

Now halve the amount of water in the glass. The Glass is now half full.

Consider a glass that is empty

If you try and halve the amount of water in the glass it is still empty. Therefore, a half empty glass is the same as an empty glass. Hence, the glass is always half full, and never half empty irrespective of whether or not you are considered to be a pessimist or an optimist.