Analogies

There is something in my brain that loves to break down really complicated life questions with analogies. I'm not sure how or when this started happening, but it's pretty much ingrained.
Maybe it started with my family and the whole "Positive Mental Attitude" (PMA) indoctrination. I'm trying to live my life a bit more honestly than that now and digging a bit deeper into my feelings and not just go into the "look on the bright side" mode.

I realize now when I'm seeing the glass as "half empty or half full" that sometimes it's important to not take the easy way out and say "of couse it's half full" so as not labeled a pessimist. Reality dictates that if the glass contiues to loose water and I continue to PMA the situation and say "At least I still have water" that the situation can continue to slide till I'm out of water and, maybe, if I had just been honest about this when the glass was "half empty" that I may have had a chance to rectify the situation.

So what am I talking about now? Political concerns, environmental degredation, finances, business, relationships? Probably all of the above. That's the great thing about analogies, they can relate to so many situations. Maybe that's why I use them so much.