The Drinking Glass

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The image of the glass has always been used - 'the glass half full or the glass half empty' or 'fill the glass to the brim, walk around the block, what do you see?' The glass is for drinking. That is a given. Eighty per cent of our body is water. Roughly. That is why we are advised to drink eight glasses of water each day. The question is why? Why do we need to drink? Actually, the act of drinking holds a metaphor of some sort. We need to quench our thirst. There's a thirst for wealth, fame, glory. There's a thirst for power or physical beauty. That is why people surgically alter their faces and their bodies. Even the color of their skin. But all this to naught, one realizes, when the skin finally becomes like a bitter gourd. The image of the drinking glass is a reminder that we must work to sustain the soul that never rots.