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The never-ending debate: half full vs. half empty…
April 10, 2017 by GuyHeilenman · Leave a Comment
I’ve heard some say with a degree of frustration that approximately one-half of all people view life through a half-empty prism. Of course I’ve heard others express relief that approximately the same percentage of people have learned how to count their blessings. These polar-opposite, life-defining, joy-determining paradigms have been battling it out for quite some time. With this world-view tension as the backdrop, please enjoy the following article from the Findlay (Ohio) Daily Jeffersonian dated December 17, 1880:
Filed under: Food for Thought, Post Civil War
Tagged: 1880, Food for Thought, humor, Ohio, world view