Attitude Towards Difficulties: A Cartoon Comment As is vividly and symbolically conveyed in the drawing above, confronted with the same situation that a water bottle is knocked over, one man is expressing his disappointment that “there is none left”, while another man is eager to pick up the bottle, saying “it is lucky that there is still some left”. Obviously, the cartoon is trying to shows that the different people have different outlooks towards difficulties, which will determine their way to cope with them. Possessing an optimistic attitude, people in the dilemma always bear hope in mind and summon up courage to find the way to conquer the obstacles. Take the great blind and deaf American author, Helen Keller, for example, it is her positiveness, gratefulness and courage that leave her out the crippled body and to explore the world where she existed. However, when facing difficulties, the pessimistic person only focuses on the negative side and exaggerates the worst situation. They choose to give up quickly and then brood over their loss or failure, which in turn will throw their life in the vicious circle. From the above discussion, we come to know that the optimism is more desirable in such bad circumstances like the cartoon, especially in the current highly competitive society, where we always encounter one setback or another. Only if we obtain a positive attitude, can we be bound to live a life of happiness.