Jenny and I were talking about the whole “glass half full” situation on the ride back up from Greenville.

Maybe it was me who was talking about it.

I don’t know why it came up.

Anyway, I started ranting like a street corner preacher when we were discussing it….fooling around….amusing myself….probably at Jenny’s patient expense.

What I said was something along the lines of, “I think that the glass is 51% full all of the time, but that we buy into the illusion that there’s a decision to be made about the condition of the liquid in the glass.”

We buy into the illusion….because we don’t know any better.

The glass is 51% full….even if it looks like it could swing either way.

Fifty one percent….all of the time.

Fifty one percent doesn’t give us the option of pessimism….even if it looks like we have that choice.

I guess that I didn’t want to come off as a Pollyanna-ish optimist and say that the glass was even more full than it was.

It sounds goofy to say that the glass is always completely full.

That’s crazy talk.

That’s not close to being true.

There are unfair and sad things that happen all of the time.

People exist in a tragic state, sometimes.

But….believing that the glass is even slightly over “half full” might give us the chance to move towards something that feels like healing.

All we have is the illusion that is our perception.

We color everything in our world by accepting a mindset.

Acception can be a dangerously debilitating thing if it’s not steered in a positive direction.

I can’t say that the “world is the way it is”.

I don’t know enough about the world to be able to say that it’s completely good or completely evil…..or, even, completely anything.

I lean heavily towards the “good” side….even if it comes mostly from that ignorance.

I do like my thought about 51%, though.

In a company, the entity that has 51% ownership is said to have a “controlling interest”.

My controlling interest is that my world has a lot of potential…that it is governed by good.

I believe that it’s governed by God….but that makes some people uncomfortable for some reason…so….I will say that….God is good and let it rest there.

I could see why other people might think that the glass is half empty on occasion, though.

It’s tough to see straight when you don’t know my secret.