1-11-13 Glasses of Water

I have noticed that a lot of people blog more or less about negative stuff. (Yes I am just as guilty of this as many others). Why do we do this? I know when we are young they teach us "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?"

"Well, blogging isn't really saying anything. It's typing"

Um, no so totally not true. Just because the actual words are not coming out of your mouth, they are still coming out of your brain and those words can be just as harmful as the ones spoken aloud.

Why do I say this? Well, I don't want people to think that I am such a negative person. I really am not that bad. Yeah, things aren't great for me but they could be worse.
* I have a good job with pretty awesome co-workers (for the most part/most of the time).
* I have a family who loves and cares about me.
* I have some of the greatest friends I could ever ask for.

Yeah, I have money issues but money isn't what makes people happy in the long run. Yes it is nice to be able to buy things but guess what? Buying anything and everything does not change who a person is on the inside.

Take tonight for example:

Tonight I met up with a bunch of friends for a "birthday celebration happy hour."  Anita is a wonderful person who has a great boyfriend. She and I don't see eye to eye on a lot of things but we both have a love of movies which is how we met. She introduced me to Nancy through our love of movies. They were both celebrating their birthday tonight and I got to hang out with them (and many, many, many) other people. Did I drink? Nah, I had water. I didn't really feel like drinking. Did I get food? Nope. I was hungry but I didn't feel like spending $10 on a cheeseburger (but in defense, the size of the burger was well worth the price.) What did I do? I talked to friends, hung out and ended up heading back to my "sister" Theresa's place to watch a movie with them. (After I picked up something to eat - much cheaper than the cheeseburger). It was a good night.

Nothing exciting. Not much complaining. I saw a lot of people I haven't seen in a while. Yeah it stinks that I can't see them as much as we all want to but that is part of being an adult. We have to be ok with the fact that even though we can't see those we care about whenever we want, we still know we care about each other. We still send each other texts or facebook messages or whatever saying hi and that's enough for us.

In the end, I would say my glass is pretty darn full.... even if a lot of it is possibilities. =)

~J