What a fun story to illustrate a point! It reminds me of another similar analogy I heard of the "Negative vs. Positive farmer". One day two farmers work up to see it was raining. The positive farmer rejoiced because he knew the rain would help nourish his plants. The negative farmer scorned the sky and started worrying his plants would flood and he would lose his crop. The next day they woke up and it was sunny. You get the picture... the negative farmer still found something to complain about.

I think the illustration of these two stories is that some people find ways to view the world with a "half full" mentality and work through hardships where the apathy person or negative farmer always find an excuse as to why something won't work.

Thanks for the thoughtful comment!