The Glass Is Always Full

Courtesy of  Costa Rican Times

So, I recently figured out that being injured... sucks. Ever since I got hurt all I can do is hobble along on my massive black boot throughout the school day and then I have to come home, elevate my leg, and ice my foot. Most of my day is spent either sitting in class, laying at home letting my brain rot, or laying at home doing homework. Not doing anything is making me feel sick and tired when I'm not doing anything to make me feel that way. Now I'm not writing just to complain, and I know it must sound awfully annoying, but during times like this we all have to stay optimistic.

Optimism can be a great thing, and I try to stay as optimistic as I can whenever I am able to, but it's hard. We all hit rock bottom, or somewhere near rock bottom, every now and then. We reach a point where it seems useless to keep on going, or even keep on living. It's hard to leave that point, to keep going until it all gets better, especially in this hateful world that we live in. It's at these points that we have to stay optimistic. I'm not sure where this was from, but I came across a small piece about optimism and it said to stay optimistic and used falling down the stairs as an example. When you "fall down the stairs" (metaphorically and literally) don't complain about getting hurt, instead say, "Did you see how fast I got down those stairs!?" Another example would be the picture that I used for this post, the whole "half full" thing is just not good enough, stay optimistic and realize that the glass is always full, even when there's no water, it filled with air.

We live in a world that will happily beat you down when you are at your highest, and the world will beat you again when you're trying to get back up. Sometimes, you have to focus on the good things, the lives that we live have hateful things within them, but there are great things in our lives too. Food and sleep, for example, are two of my favorite things in this world. So, if I'm feeling down, I'll sleep or chow down. What can I say? Sleep is frickin' amazing and food is frickin' delicious, don't judge, but that's a couple of blogs for other days. So, what I want you to take from this is you have to remember that it's not the end of the world, I know it may seem like it, but it's not. We are all afraid of endings, ending of the world, ending of lives, ending of our own purpose, but endings don't have to be something that we're all afraid of. The end of the world may just be the end of an era, and with the end of every era, there is a new beginning.