Thursday, July 2, 2020

Your Life, Your story

All of us walking this earth have lived a different story. We have met different people who have either inspired love in us or inspired fear in us. People who live a life of courage and honesty or people who trample others in their quest for money and power. People who have helped us up or put us down. People who made us laugh or made us cry. Each one of us has traveled our own path and therefore has our own individual story to tell. The story of our life. Based on our very own experiences. These experiences and meetings of people will be the reason we have our views and our opinions. If we have met people of a certain race or religion or nationality or occupation, who have made a positive impact on us we will feel favorable towards anyone who resembles them and if someone hurt us we will very likely feel unfavorable, more specifically if many hurt us. How could we even think of telling someone else their experiences were wrong. They lived their story, yet it doesn’t have to end there. We can search out the good. We can remind ourselves that hurt people hurt people. The cycle has to end somewhere, why not with me? Why not with you? Perhaps we can respect each person’s personal experiences yet still hope to heal the negative ones. Getting into someone’s face and telling them their experiences don’t matter is hardly helpful. We need to listen to each other better to really understand the pain and the fear if we want to get past it. We need to love and to forgive and to hope and to dream and to create a more peaceful and safe world for everyone. Perhaps you start with you, and I will start with me. Be the one to inspire love and courage and listen with an open heart to those in pain.