Don’t look now, but it’s August! I know, I know. Summer is almost over. But before we begin to get ourselves down, thinking about late nights in libraries, depressing football losses, freezing cold weather, and depressing football losses in freezing cold weather, remember this: the glass is 100% full.
Suppose we are walking, and we forget what we’re doing and make a wrong turn. What do we do? Many people may keep heading in that same wrong direction. What’s better, though, is to adjust our route for what is fastest (or most scenic, easiest on the joints—whatever we value most) at that moment. If that requires pulling a one-eighty, we do it. To avoid looking weird, we might cross the street beforehand, but still, we do it.
It’s like exponential decay. Carbon 14 doesn’t know that 10,000 years ago it had a lot more of itself. It’s just happy that it has so much of itself now. From its point of view, carbon 14 is always normalized to 1, the present! And by doing so, carbon 14’s attitude always remains aligned.
Er, excuse me for that nerdiness.
Anyway, it’s thinking about situations as if they are brand new to us. If summer were only one month to begin with, we would all be quite happy that there’s one month of summer left. It’s like we’re drinking our glasses, and they become half empty, but instead of wishing that emptiness were filled, we just get smaller glasses.
And there you have it, a full glass. And as mother always said, let's be sure to finish our glass before we drink another. I’m feeling a little thirsty for some smoothie about now, so feel free to stop by if you want some. Cheers to August as the best month ever!
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