Faith- The Glass Is Half Full

With Mutley winning a clear 52% of the vote, there can be no argument. Mutley shall be our President.
John Major acquitted himself OK at 30%, with Bob Geldoff and Paddy Ashdown doing less well.
As for Mandelson, well, let's just say he flopped.

This week's poll I guess, is about we why live.
Why we work, why we play.
And when it comes down to it, why we blog.

How DO you see this curious mystery that is our experience?

Ultimately we can only ever see it one of two ways.
And that depends on how we view OURSELVES.

Do you look in the mirror and like what you see?
Or not?

The old glass half empty, glass half full dichotomy is truer than we often appreciate.
Because both are true. The glass is both half empty and half full. But are you concerned by what you haven't got, or what you have?

Humanity may go on for millions of years, or it may end in fifty.
We don't know.

You may acheive everything you dream of, or you may end life a bitter failure.
You don't know.

The man you have just met could your best friend, or he could be a con man.
You don't know.

But you are living a life where you HAVE to make decisions based on an assumption. Which are you going to believe?



Are you going to treat everyone as your friend, until they prove themselves an enemy?
Or treat everyone as an enemy till they prove themselves a friend?

Is it worth living a life where you see the community around you, the people you share a world with, as basically good, something worth fighting for, even worth dieing for?
Or is it just a case of most people are selfish, so carve your own little niche and sit in it, because nothing is worth believing in, except you and the tiny group of people you allow yourself to trust?

Do you believe that even though you are flawed, even though you have a list of failings that you are ashamed of, that you CAN, in some small way make a difference?
In a positive way?

And can you believe that of those around you too?

When you look at a blog you've never read before, a blog whose author you know NOTHING about, do you see a new friend?

Do you see EVERY HUMAN BEING YOU COME INTO CONTACT WITH as a new face to get to know, as someone else you'd like to have as a friend?
Or not?

Because it matters.
If you are no good, than how can your species be?

If the species is going to succeed, then maybe you'll be part of that.
If it isn't, why bother?

Aren't you just trying to succeed in a futile existence?

There are millions out there doing just that. Oh, they have partners and children and four wheel drives and nice houses.
But it is dead lives they lead. They have failed, in every sense that really matters.
They have no faith in Man, and therefore, no real faith that their lives have meaning, outside the narrow world they have carved for themselves.



Life, life isn't a dress rehearsal.
You WILL cock up. You WILL cause pain and hurt, and you will receive it too.
You WILL sometimes find yourself groaning, unable to see your way out of the mess you are in.

But then you need to remind yourself;

You're a good person.
You're going to be OK.

People are good.
They're going to be OK.

Life is amazing.
It's GOING TO BE OK.

And none of this may be true.
You may be wrong.
But even if you are, you win.

Because your life will have been happier.
The thoughts in it were nicer.

Do you have faith?

Have your say!