I like to think of myself as a cup.
Just a plain, simple mug that you might find at Crate & Barrel along with countless others of various sizes, shapes and colors.
The great thing about cups is that you can fill them up with things. And there are so many things from which to choose. I like to fill my cup up with love. Right up to the brim, sometimes spilling over.
With so much love in my cup, there’s no space left for anything else. If someone tries to give me a gift of their hate, anger or shame – well, I just don’t have any room for that in my cup.
And as my cup goes about its business, it likes to spill a little love into the other cups that it encounters, so long as those cups have some extra room and the desire. And all the while, I’ve noticed something very peculiar: The more love I give to others, the more I have left to give.
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September 4, 2010 at 11:24 am
What a great way to look at life this day! I will have no room for anything negative in my cup either today. Thanks Davey!!
love is sent to you from me!
September 4, 2010 at 11:27 am
thank you this brightens my outlook on life davey wavey
September 4, 2010 at 11:31 am
that’s awesome and i’m going to try to look at the world like that but my cup will not only have love but joy and hugs
September 4, 2010 at 11:43 am
Today… I decided moodbucks had to fill my cup with a good mood. I had my thermos filled as well, so I could pour out to whomever wanted to…. a smile or a kind deed.
I hope we all have given a little ray of light to the people around us, brightening their day.
September 4, 2010 at 11:49 am
I try to fill my cup with love as well. But I must admit I have those days where that spoon of crystaline negativity gets spooned in.
So I empty my cup clean it well and begin filling it again. Less I wreck my mood and my diet.
September 4, 2010 at 12:11 pm
I always seem to need two cups… one like yours and one to hold the contempt that i have for all the bigots, exploiters and haters in the world.
September 4, 2010 at 12:23 pm
It’s not the clay that the sculptor molds into the vase or mug that creates the usefulness, but it’s what we fill the emptiness with that makes each day worth living.
September 4, 2010 at 12:25 pm
I like that. Thanks!
September 4, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Thanks a lot for your blog DW, i love you and i love what you’re doing as well.
September 4, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Davy my cup of love is running low. I wish you would fill mine with your love. I am lost and alone please help Robby
September 4, 2010 at 8:30 pm
I wish I knew how to do this.
September 4, 2010 at 8:31 pm
help me before I die
September 4, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Robby you do matter!!!!! You are cared for even if you are unaware. Feel that your cup is filled with love :
September 4, 2010 at 9:00 pm
thank you Jeff no one has ever told me that and it feels really good to hear you say that. love you Robby
September 4, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Consider that you’re poisoning yourself when you hold the contempt. It hurts you far more than it does the other people. And they’re not bad people. They just hold views that differ from yours. Their experiences of life have given them those views and the only way to change them is to live as an example that perhaps those views are not God’s almighty truth. Many of the world’s great spiritual teachers and philosophers have embraced the idea of loving or holding close one’s enemies. It just works better than hatred or contempt. It’s not easy but it is simple – the only way to show people that their reality is inaccurate is to be the example.
September 5, 2010 at 12:46 am
Hey Davey congrats on new Mac… once i got the iPhone 2g then 3G then 3Gs then 4 and MacBook Pro 15 then 17 then iMac27 then Apple TV original and New Apple TV and iPad3g64 and new ipod nano lol.
Its like tatoos once you get one you get more..
September 5, 2010 at 12:46 am
was trying to post dang pic sorry grr.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs188.ash2/45125_10150241452745581_811285580_14400154_2218812_n.jpg
September 5, 2010 at 1:31 am
Robby,
Love yourself first and foremost. It does not matter others views on you, just yours. Yours is the only view that you can control.
Take all the hurt, pain, doubt… and just dump it. It’s not worth carrying. I know it seems hard to do but it can be done.
You control if someones words, insensitivity, or outright cruelty affects you. I’m not saying they won’t sting but you can control if they linger and grow into a raging torrent.
One of my motto’s is Live, Love, Forgive. Live for yourself and those you choose in your life. Love yourself, others, and the world, unconditionally. Forgive, yourself and others for mistakes and hurtful things.
Also have faith. It can be faith in God, the universe, your family or even yourself.
You are important and worthy of love and attention. Don’t allow anyone to take that from you, most especially yourself.
So take one of those problems in your cup as a starter and forgive or let go of it. I think you will find it does help. Then try it with the others.
You always have us here to ask advice of. I can’t speak for Davey but if it’s important you could ask him via the contact me link.
Your fellow blog buddy,
T
September 5, 2010 at 3:29 am
To you and to all the blog buddy’s who might feel hurt by past experiences or even the more recent ones, or who experience negativity but don’t know how to let go of them.
I find it helps to symbolize things. When I want to discuss something with God I write a letter which I burn afterwards. A similar thing could be done with negative feelings.
Take two cups fill one of them with cola, or whatever drink you like and label this a positive emotion. Drink a cup for each feeling you want to hold onto.
Then you take another cup and fill it with a drink you hate. Pour it down the drain, or the toilet. In case of the toilet: keep pouring until you have let go of all those negative feelings and then just flush.
I hope it helps you.
Happy sunday brothers and sisters!
September 5, 2010 at 3:51 am
I have nothing to say all i have is LLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEE …..I hope my cup will be full of LOVE so it can overflow onto others
September 5, 2010 at 7:25 am
Welcome Robby. Always ready to help. You do matter and will always .
you impact lives in ways you prolly never know. Love you too!! 
September 5, 2010 at 7:33 am
Robby fill your cup with the love of Jesus it will never run out,The lord has so much love to give to all his children
September 5, 2010 at 9:21 am
On this note: There are a couple of facts that I like to occasionally ponder; “there is no such thing as darkness since darkness is the lack of light.” “There is no such thing as cold since cold is simply the lack of warmth.” Maybe there is no such thing as hate and that what we call hate is just the lack of love.”
September 5, 2010 at 10:56 am
It is such a beautiful metaphor.Love was meant to be shared,so more love can be grown.
September 5, 2010 at 10:56 am
Are we talking sports cup or tea cup or coffee cup?
September 5, 2010 at 11:00 am
…..thanks man…. reading your updates sometimes make me feel like Harry Potter or Alice in Wonderland….. maybe there is still some magic out there…..
September 5, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Davey, you cute li’l “cup” cake, you can be my cup to serve as my sperm recepticle!
September 6, 2010 at 6:53 am
Well I like to believe that the love you give always comes back on you! This is something that motives me to love the people around me but also this is our destination right? To love and being loved is one of the greatest things! It’s a gateway,an escape from the human world!! I personaly am in love everyday!
On the other hand when I share all these lovehoughts with people on their twenties or so always telling me that these are products of my teenage world (btw I am 16) and I am afraid that in the future I may change! But if a person on his 27(yes you Davey)has managed all alone to love unconditionally maybe I can do it too righ?
September 6, 2010 at 8:27 am
Well of course you could! I myself had turn 25 to come to this understanding.
I happen to have a colleague who manages to get into my hair on a day to day basis. Says hurtful things. My natural response is to snap right back. Which I usually do.
But today, we had a discussion about being gay. He is convinced we are not normal, because he believes we go to schools to turn children gay. Of course this is all BS, but this feeling he has is based upon his culture. He can’t help it. How do I respond? Do I reply in a hurtful manner or do I say that I love him in spite of his opinion?
My emotion advises me to do the first, but my moral tells me to do the latter. In fact I decided to do neither. I don’t want to sink to his level, but I’m also not the bigger man it takes to say I love him.
I know I need to grow, but hey…. Everyone does. My point is: if you are able to love unconditionally, you need to hang on to that.
To be able to love unconditionally and without predjudice is the biggest gift you can give to mankind.
I hope I’ll reach that point where I’ll be able to, but for now I have a long road ahead of me….. Shitty? No, not really.
Man has to keep on learning and so must I. And I’m confident that I’ll reach that point someday.