mixed and not so much

There was that great scene at the beginning of Dogma, where at the abortion clinic they talked about as you grow bigger it takes more and more to fill your cup up with faith.

Then there was this random sermon I was at where they talked about the cup getting overfilled, but people still wanting more. However, no matter how much you got your cup could only be so full, that's why you needed to pass some on to others from time to time.

Then a book I'm reading about kids, talks of how much easier we are to entertain in our younger years, but as we age it is harder and harder to make things easy.

So I was thinking what if that is with everything.

If to truly get the good, we must experience the bad, and if things have been good for awhile then we forget how good we have it.

Or the inverse, wherein the bad overwhelms our good.

I suppose it does apply.

There was this great episode of a SciFi Channel Cartoon, that talked of how if God didn't exist ever, then not only would there not be good, but there wouldn't be evil, and therefore without knowing evil, everyone would actually just end up good. Then when evil was introduced as an option, people went nuts.

So if you experience joy, or the lack there of too often, the older one is the more joy it takes to refill your cup? Hmm..