Glass half full
I was thinking of adopting my friend Sam the butcher's favourite saying as my motto of the week: “Mate, any day above ground is a good day”. But then my mind, cynical and depressive as always, came up with this response: “Yes, but some of us are out there diggin' holes”.
It occurred to me, however, that the book of Ecclesiastes backs us both up:
Sam's bit: “There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy...”
My bit: “But to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.”
See the original in Ecclesiastes 2:24-26.