Half Empty or Half Full (The tumbler, silly??)

This one's a beater. Whoever put this idea into my head during childhood that whenever you face an interview, you are asked about a tumbler half filled with water kept on the table and that whether it is half empty or half full. If you answer that it is half full, then you are an optimist and if you answer it is half empty, then dude! you are a pessimist. From then on I always watched with keen interest tumblers filled with water, tumblers half filled, half empty and completely emptied. Sometimes, I would think what had tumblers or for that matter water got to do with optimism or pessimism per se. It took me 28 years and 6 months to understand (I mean really understand) that they were not talking about tumblers (at all!!) in the first place. And hence, nothing to do with water either! It was after all about people, people and more people. How people thought, how people felt and how people lived. Those who answered tumbler being half full were the braggish ones (the modern day capitalists!!) who did not bother to think about whatever happened with the other half of this world. And those on the other side, deprived as they were, had their hands on cheekbones and awaited the unknown.

Forgive me friend, for having misled you. One of the primary aims of education is to prepare an individual to contribute to the process of institution building. Institutions are of various kinds, as we know and understand. Yet, what is more important to ponder about is that during the process of institution building who is of greater importance? The interests of the individuals or that of the institution?

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