Honest Tea

I'm pretty into honesty, but Honest Tea is pretty rad, too. Firstly, they fill the bottles to the brim. You can't even shake a bottle without taking a sip first. You know how when you buy a bag of chips, you usually open it and it is only half full or less? But this is like the total opposite of that. I'm sure they need some room for air in the packaging so the poor little chips don't get all crushed up and that I can understand, but I've never seen a bottle so full. They also have some pretty sweet quotes on the inside of their bottles. My favorite so far is:

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind"
--Ghandi

And this one is pretty good, too:

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
--Confucius

And one more:

"If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."
--Oscar Wilde

I actually wouldn't really consider myself a quote person, but maybe that's just because there are a lot of bad quotes out there. There are some good ones, too, but I guess my problem with quotes is that something can sound really catchy but might misleading or even untrue, or maybe I don't like them because I disagree with them. Like the quote about it being better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. I don't agree with that personally, but I guess that's just my opinion. Anyways, here's my attempt at a quote. I swear I came up with it myself, although I suppose it may have been said before:

"If life were always blissful, it would never be blissful."

What I mean by that is it takes the bad for us to appreciate the good. It takes suffering to learn. Sometimes it takes a conscious effort to be happy. I believe I am a happier person now than I would have been if I had never suffered. But most of all what I mean by that is what I first said, that if we never had bad things happen we wouldn't know the good was good. We enjoy the things we have earned for ourselves the most. Perhaps you could say, "A cookie earned tastes better than a cookie received," or something. Maybe that is dumb, I'm not sure it's even true, just an idea. The one argument I have with my own quote is that I think there comes a time in life when one can be blissful while suffering. Call me crazy, but I have thanked God while I've cried myself to sleep about something bad that has happened. Notice I said while, which is very different than being thankful for something bad happening years after the fact because you realize it was actually a blessing in disguise. Maybe I've reached some higher state of being, maybe I'm just nuts.