The Flight of the Rocketman

Oh, for the days when Quality was king, and we were its servants; we lost our common sense and it was fine. When we searched for Excellence! Remember Excellence? -- As texted to me by my Dad

I was having a meeting last night when one of the people at the meeting told us this interesting Chinese belief. I'll try to articulate it properly even if I don't have visual aids.

Think about a cup. Each person has a cup where they they can put money in. That money is the representation of the amount they can save or have at any given time. No matter how much they want to save more and make more, once the cup is filled, the money will overflow and that will be lost. It can be that you'll get robbed or the money falls in some hole in the floor or you misplaced it. Somehow, the universe will find a way to ensure that you only have so much money in your existence, which is in relation to that cup. Some people have large cups, those people who, whatever they get into can make money and seem to have the capacity to save in large amounts. Then there are those who have smaller cups and, it seems, no matter how hard they work and how hard they save, the money always disappears.

With that in mind, I think my cup which represents my money is a shot glass. Ha Ha Ha

It's a fantastic way of thinking about things. That, as you are born, these things are in a constant. They never really change and you are stuck with it. And yeah, it may seem unfair. That that's it. That's all you get for the rest of your life. And then, there's this idea that we have cups for different aspects of our lives. Like one for money, the other for career, the other for love. And while some people have small cups for career and money they have huge cups for love.

Don't you know those sort of people who are really lucky in love and they always seem to be getting in and out of relationships but never seem to get lucky in their career or never seem to have enough money? Then there are those types of people who always seem to win the lottery and they always seem to get into something that is very lucrative but have very unfulfilled love lives?

It almost seems that there are people who have fixed constants within the aspects of their lives.

But then, there are those people who have it all. So how does one break their cups and just accept all of it coming in full force? At unlimited rates? That's the trick. That's the way. It can be done.

How does it happen?