Glass half full talking about optimism and pessimism

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News Summary
- Some people seem to sail happily through life, always looking forward to what’s coming next and always expecting things to go well.
- Others are quite the opposite, always expecting bad things to happen.
- Today's post looks at some of the language we use to describe these two extremes.summarize in 5 sentences: Listen to the author reading this blog post.
- by Liz Walter.
- We can say that they are optimistic or positive or that they have a positive outlook on life.
- We often make these phrases adjectival, for instance calling someone a ‘glass half full/half empty kind of person’
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