If someone else fills YOUR glass for you, they get to OWN it for themselves! Take control of your own life, put your big girl, or big boy pants on, and get on with filling that glass up for your self!
After all, YOU get to choose what you want to drink. Life is too short to allow others to control what goes into your mind, soul, body, and spirit. God has given each and every one of us the FREE WILL CHOICE to decide for ourselves what we do for the rest of our lives. When bad things happen, and they DO, and they WILL, what are YOU going to do?
2007-07-11 19:11:51 · 12 answers · asked by Sookins W 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
McDonalds gives free refills, and none of this half full nonsense, they fill it to the brim ice or no ice.
2007-07-11 19:14:53 · answer #1 · answered by MeLoveYouLongTime 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What an amazing question! I have always felt personally responsible for my actions/reactions and choices but I never actually though of someone else owning my part of the glass.
When bad things happen to me, my first reaction is to stop and ask God "what is it that I have done to make this happen?"
For several years I was a nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit at a level 1 trauma center. I have seen the worst of the worst and never understood why children die. During my journey of metaphysics and self exploration, I heard someone say that as souls we choose what it is that we want to learn or experience when we take on the form of humans. If the only thing we want to experience is unconditional love then at the moment that we fulfill that experience, we leave this world.
That was the only comfort that I could find to explain to me why children die.
I also read that Karma transcends lifetimes and what we experience in this lifetime probably carried over from the last. So whatever I am living now, I created somewhere along the way.
I have to tell you that this was scary at first but now is liberating because I parent differently, love differently, and live differently.
I don't let others own my share of the glass. If I encounter ugly people at the grocery store or restaurant, I accept that I have been ugly and immediately start to love people and send more kindness and compassion to everyone I meet.
It is not easy because our EGO wants to be right.
I would rather be KIND than RIGHT!
Angie Milhous
www.AngieMilhous.com
2007-07-11 19:34:01 · answer #2 · answered by Angie Milhous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
— Indian proverb
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
— Frederick Douglass, escaped slave
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
— Anonymous
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
— Mark Twain
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
— Oliver Cromwell
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven.
— William Shakespeare
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
2007-07-11 22:54:36 · answer #3 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My glass is half full... of evil.
just kidding I wanted to use that line really bad.
I agree that life is too short, and that you can't expect things to be handed to you. Also I believe that life is what you make of it, no one can be blamed for your actions but yourself. Sure other's influence them but you are the one who actually does it.
2007-07-11 19:17:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Despair. He's the one who poked a hole in the bottom so he can just keep filling and always have a job. There's nothing like job security.
2007-07-11 19:41:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What will I do? What I always do:
Suck it up and drive on. I may piss and moan at first, but then I get over it and allow myself to move on. They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and I guess that's true.
2007-07-11 19:47:57 · answer #6 · answered by lady_greentree 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ah, but not true if you are in Japan. It is proper etiquette to pour drinks for the other person dining with you and vice versa.
2007-07-11 19:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Slam the dang glass against the wall, I guess....
2007-07-11 19:43:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nicely said. But who says you have to stop at half full? I want it all. Pax - C
2007-07-11 19:14:59 · answer #9 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I drink straight from the bottle, so this discussion doesn't apply to me.
2007-07-11 19:25:58 · answer #10 · answered by HeadScratcher98 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋