re Coelho quote + engineering joke

[greya]

I feel like winning over a desired person is pointless. Either they come to you, or they don't. When I try to win somebody over, I very often succeed, but there's emptiness in it. Once the spellmaking is over, the true relationship comes out, if there is meant to be any.

~An optimist would say the glass is half full
~A pessimist would say the glass is half empty
~An engineer would say the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.