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Life Articles
Why?
Why? It’s a good question. Like why am I
here? Why is there famine? Why do people hurt people? Why is there
hate? Why do bad things happen to good people? How do you explain
the unexplainable? If there is an all-loving compassionate God,
why would He let small children die of starvation? Why would He
allow thundering earthquakes to bury people alive? Why would there
be murder, rape, incest, the homeless? Why?
It doesn’t seem fair to me that some are
born to a life of privilege and wealth while others are born into
dysfunctional families where stepfathers come and go as often as
the sun sets. Children having children and being asked to grow up
and be role models before they know who they are and where they
are going.
I could go on, I could list a thousand injustices
that occur everyday. But what would be the point? I wouldn’t
be telling you anything you haven’t heard before and tomorrow
when you turn on the evening news you’d probably still hear
about the seventeen-year veteran of the police force that was shot
to death pulling someone over for a routine traffic ticket. How
he left four small children and a wife who is only left repeating
over and over… Why? Why? Why?
I don’t begin to pretend to have the answers,
but there are a few things I have figured out. A few things that
let me live my day instead of just survive it. To wake up every
morning with a sense of wonder instead of disillusionment. I hope
my insights help you.
1.) Experience is a teacher that we must use to
guide us to be the person we strive to be. Deny our past, then we
are destined to repeat it till we embrace what lessons it has to
offer.
2.) We are constantly in a mode of self-creation.
Just because we want to better ourselves and our surroundings doesn’t
mean our today and now isn’t any less magnificent.
3.) Realize every moment has a birth and an ending.
All things are in a constant state of change. Life is change. Accept
that and half the worries you’ll have in your life, you’ll
be able to let go.
4.) Love is not a weapon, a tool, deception or
a burden. When true love enters your life, it won’t be cloaked
in secret or lies. It won’t have rules or guidelines. It will
just be. As a matter of fact, true love cannot be lost or wither
away. Deceptive love always has an excuse and tries to turn you
away from the light and make you into something you are not. True
love accepts. False love restricts.
5.) There are no coincidences! Everything happens
for a reason. And the reason is the reason you give it. Want to
play the part of a victim it will be easy. There will always be
those in your life that would love to use you as a doormat. Only
you can stop them. Only you can say no.
6.) You can’t make everyone happy so don’t
try. Happiness is something within each and every one of us that
is a personal decision. What we feel is determined by what we choose
to be. Try to save the world and you’ll save no one. But if
you take one person at a time that enters your life and be an example
of a person that is trying to do their best you’ll be amazed
how many smiles show up on the faces of the ones you love.
7.) Give everyone the benefit of the doubt, at
least once. You can go through life judging everyone and wondering
if they have hidden agendas but you will make yourself sick. Listen
to your heart, be loving. There are a lot of kind people just like
you are out there who would love a friend and someone to share their
life with.
8.) When crisis knocks on your door and it will,
instead of asking, “Why me?” just know you’re being
given an opportunity to grow, to learn, to remember that darkness
visits us all. And I’ll bet if you took just a second to think
about it you could come up with at least half a dozen people who
have it worse than you. Be grateful, it always could be worse.
In closing, I don’t know why certain things
happen but I do know I have the power to interpret them any way
I please. (That is the power we were all blessed with whether we
use it or not.)
by Fred Cuellar the Diamond Guy®
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