Are you a Glass-Half –Full or a Glass Half-Empty Kind of Person?

By Justin Foxton

“I’ll tell you what we have to look forward to,” boomed my Uncle Reggie as he prepared to tee off on the third at Durban Country Club; “yet another year of electricity price hikes, corrupt politicians and a lack of service delivery.”

As I wandered the lush fairways listening to my Uncle bemoan the state of our nation, I considered our tendency to be a ‘glass-half-empty’ sort of people. Like Reggie, we spend a great deal of time discussing what is wrong with our country and comparatively little time celebrating what is good.

This is sad. In fact it is tragic.

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