Empty Cup

We often associate “full” with good things. We say if see a glass as half full, we are always looking on the positive side. If we see it as half empty, we are pessimistic. We even have a saying that it’s good to give because it will return to us “sisksik, liglig at umaapaw”. I am not saying I don’t agree with it, I do. But recently, I learned (from a certain drunken master…hehe) that it’s good to empty your cup. Yes, empty it. And when I think about it, it actually makes sense. I wondered how will we able to know more if we know too much already. If our cup’s already full, how can we accept and know more of the knowledge we need to learn? How can we feel more, if we feel too much? When we are so full of emotions that we can no longer feel the new ones we should feel. How can we have new memories if our cup’s filled with old ones? And yet, we do not want to empty them and replace it with new memories. So yep, I think it’s good to fill our glasses and cups up to its brim but we should not be afraid to empty it once in a while and fill it with different, if not better stuff to drink =)