Mar 16, 2006 11:19
A person can respond to suffering like an egg, or like a potato. A potato goes into the boiling water hard, but comes out pliable. An egg goes into the boiling water soft and comes out hard.
How do you respond? Can you change how you respond? What do you think?
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I have chosen to be loving and forgiving. But it is a choice I have to keep making. I do not always succeed. But I've come to realize, that if I mess up one day, I just have to try harder the next. I realize that tomorrow may never come, but I am a firm believer in second chances. I am a firm believer that GOD GIVES SECOND CHANCES. And so should we. Sometimes I need to vent my anger, so I try to do it someplace that is safe. (My journal) Sometimes the things that come out are very bitter and angry. My anger, bitterness and hurt spill out onto that page, and I feel better for having gotten it out of me. I think we should all have a safe place to express our doubts, emotions and even to say things that we would never say in real life, because sometimes, letting it out is so much better than keeping it trapped in.
I think we have all responded to life's challenges and trials in the wrong way and wish we could go back to change them. That is why we must forgive each other. Why we must have empathy for people around us. Even if they do not have it for us. It's so hard to be understanding when people around us don't care how we feel or how their words hurt us. (I am thinking of my own recent experience here, my boss being such a callous jerk!) But shouldn't I try and understand why he was that way? Company policy is what it is. Some companies will bend the rules (and very well should) for employees who have valid medical/personal reasons for having those rules bent. But then again, I think in a man's world, women who want to be gainfully employed need to be careful that their employers understand a woman's needs, especially in a time when their bodies are changing on a daily basis, such as prenancy. And perhaps I should just look at it this way: This was God's way of saying get out before it's too late! LOL
I think in a round about way I made my point, but my thoughts are far too scattered to be cohesive or coherent. Sorry. =P
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