Just Plain Water --- Or the Elixir of Life ??

Here is a variation of something that they are teaching in the movie The Secret. Picture a glass of water sitting on a table.

The experts tell us that some 90% of Americans are in some stage of dehydration because they do not drink enough water. In fact, if Americans would drink just 5 8 oz glasses of water a day, the occurrances of several diseases would decrease by double digits.

So why is it so hard for us to drink water? We know that we should.

Could it be that it is related to how we look at it? Glass of water on the table: Boring! We need Propel or Life Water or Vitamin Water or the scourge of the American population, the diet soft drink. (Read and Google the ingredients some time).

Or maybe it is because it is too easily accessible. You can turn on your fawcett, and you can drink the water without worry in many parts of the world. It is essentially free, so maybe we think that means that it is not worth anything. (I know there is a water bill, but it does not rise very big from us drinking water, mostly from showers, baths, toilets and lawn watering).

If you had been stuck in the desert for a couple of days without water, you would have a completely different view on what that glass of water is, namely life itself. We would really appreciate it then.

But can we learn to appreciate it for what it is without The Universe having to throw us into the desert first? If we could, then there would be no purpose for The Universe to throw us into the desert. Like the mobility I describe in my last post, can we appreciate something without it being taken us away from us first? If we could, we would be doing so much better appreciating our world.

So back to the glass of water on the table . . .

Is it the "plain old glass of water that does not interest me" ??

Or is it "The Elixir of Life, Health and Hydration".

You get to decide which one it is.

And if you decide it is the second one, I do not think you would have any delay in drinking it.

And being healthier as a result.

So decide already.

Joseph