Half Full or Half Empty

There are always multiple ways of looking at things. For most, it's cut and dry. Half full or half empty. For years, I was always viewing the world from the half empty perspective, but that gets tiring. Always looking for a flaw or a reason why something won't work - playing the Devil's advocate, if you will. Albeit fun (at times), it's a lot of work - not to mention draining as well! I'm tired of looking at the half empty glass. Time for a shift in perspective.

First of all, I've got my health, which is not something that everyone can proclaim. I think it has something to do with the yogurts and Special K that I eat daily. LOL! All kidding aside, I made up my mind a few years ago that I was going to get in shape. I lost 24 pounds, and have managed to keep most of the pounds off. That's no easy feat, especially considering the fact that I love chocolate, and eat some every day, but that's a blog entry unto itself.

Second of all, I have an amazing, supportive family. We don't live in the same town, or even in the same state for that matter, but we hold one another in our hearts. As for my girls and Karl, they're the best. I am very lucky and I know it. Without support, life is a struggle. It's a struggle against all of the things that work against you. Support changes things, and it has changed my life.

Friends. I've been blessed with wonderful and amazing friends. I make friends easily, and they surround me like a warm blanket. There's nothing like getting refreshed or recharged when you see or speak with a friend. I'm thankful that I have a variety of friends, for we all know that variety is the spice of life. I wish that everyone could have friends like mine. I especially like the fact that my friends keep it real - like reminding me that it's normal for my cheese to be moved from time to time!

Cheese, and it's location comes next on my list. It's easy to forget that sometimes your cheese gets moved. Of course it doesn't move itself, someone or something moves it. If you had a map to the maze, well, you'd always know where your cheese was, and then what would be the point? Things would be so easy Where would the lesson to be learned? At that point, why even have cheese at all. I suppose it all boils down to what Keith always says to me. "Look deeper. Did you look deeper?" Looking deeper isn't easy. It's like accepting that someone moved your cheese, and setting off in search of it. Life is a constant... a constant change. So why would you expect the cheese to always be at the end of any given road? Exactly! Yeah, when the cheese moves, go with the flow - adapt and enjoy... cheddar ain't the only cheese in the world, you know.

I've gone from glasses being half empty or half full, to cheese. Those two go together. Remembering that the glass is half full and that it's normal for life to move your cheese from time to time. Today, the life lesson from the glass and the cheese was the following: "We will always find what we look for; if we look for the bad, we will find it. If we look for the good, we will find that too. But what we look for, we become!" Thanks, Larry, for that perspective. For me, it was a wake up call. Thanks for having forsight and perseverance. Right now, the cheese is calling, and I'm off to savor my adventure as I enjoy the taste of new cheese!