Glass half full

Someone asked me the other day if I was a glass half full or half empty guy and my reply was neither. I am an engineer and believes the glass has not been designed properly so that it will always be full!

This may sound like a witty answer and it is but the more I thought about it? The more I realized that there may just be something true about it. 

Why should we be stuck with the same glass and measure everything against it if we can change the glass to fit the amount of water or whatever liquid you have in the glass? Then we will always have a glass full. Makes more sense doesn't it?

Ahh, but you ask how we do that? 

Let me relate another story I heard. If I look at my life right at this moment, this second, then I have exactly what I need. I have a place to stay, food to eat, work to do, family and friends who love and care for me, I am healthy, have talents that I am using, and I can go on counting all my blessings at this moment. 

I am also exactly where I am supposed to be. That's right. If I was supposed to be somewhere else I would have been there but I am not. 

Also, I  am exactly who I am supposed to be at this moment. I cannot be someone else right now can I? Or be different. I am what I am, now. 

So with all this information at my  fingertips, the glass size actually fits me at this moment and it is full. Amazing isn't it? To the rim. I should be content. 

So why do we have this glass half empty thing? Why are we not content with the situation right now? I think it is because we are not living in the moment. We are either living in the past with lots of regrets or unfinished business making our glass emptying out or half empty, or in the future with dreams and goals that we want to achieve to make us happy making the glass half full. Both of which keeps us from being content with what we have right now and the glass always feels to be emptying or filling but never full. 

But that cannot be right? I have all these things in my past that is bothering me. That I have to sort out! That little voice that tells me I should have.... You know what, at last, at last, the past is past. I cannot change it. Learn from it, make amends but put it where it belongs, in the past. 

Or what about the dreams and goals? It's in the future and not certain. Remember, contentment does not equal

complacency. I should have the dreams and goals but they should not be what determines my happiness at this moment. Happiness is a choice not an achievement. 

Moral of the story? Live in the moment , look around, count your blessings and redesign your glass so that it it always full.