I'm sure you have heard the question asked as to whether a glass holding water is half full or half empty.  This illustration has been used to determine what kind of person you are and how you view life in general.  Are you an optimist or a pessimist? I tend to add my own imagery to the picture and ask, who handed you the glass?  Perhaps it was a drink you didn't ask for?  But then this sounds pessimistic. Again, it has more to do with drinking.  I mean sipping from the glass until it is depleted and then what?  Who takes the glass offering to fill it up again and again? We are now in the days following Christmas gearing up for a New year.  Perhaps there isn't the frenzied chaos of preparation but there is still a sense of urgency.  A sense of expectation as we cross the threshold from what is past and what potentially is viewed as a new and hopeful time of life.  Kind of like sipping the glass nearing the bottom of our drink. Who will take our glass and offer to refill it