Last week, we had some friends from our church come by to share a spiritual thought. One of them held up two fingers to demonstrate the size of a glass. “Hayden,” he asked my five-year-old, “if you had a glass this size, what would you call it if you drank the water down to here?”
He lowered his top finger to about half of the imaginary glass height. “Half . . . ?”
“Half empty.” Hayden giggled as his own cleverness. Our friend began to move on in the lesson, but Hayden wasn’t done. He held up his own imaginary glass height. “But you fill it up.” He demonstrated the rising water level in the glass to the half-way point. “And it’s half full!”
I need that change in perspective sometimes. Don’t you?
How do you reset the half-empty attitude?
Photo by Jenny Downing
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I remind myself, I had to recently, that being happy is a choice.
I take one look at my son. That’s worked every time so far.