As I get older (turning 47 Feb 17th) I realize that life becomes more and more precious. Days of ol'cannot be brought back, we long for the good ol days when life seemed so much more simpler. The carefree days of our youthful days are lost. We all wish that we could turn back time, do something different, go back and say things different. Take back words that we spoke to someone that hurt them. Tell our loved ones that we really do love them. Repair broken hearts and mend burned bridges. But we cannot get back the last 5 minutes, the last hour, the last year or the past 10 years.
But we do have the power to change tomorrow, the way we talk to someone does it heal or does it hurt? The way we treat people is it loving and kind or vendictive and mean? We can go out of our way to make a difference in people's lives. One touch, one smile, one hug. Tell someone today that you love them ! Reach out and hug someone. The world is full of hurt and pain. Everyone is in need of a friend. People should spend more time looking up and less time looking around. In every pew is a broken heart.
I have come to learn that I have made some wrong choices, I have sacrificed relationships with family members for nothing more than trying to "protect" someone, only to find out it was the lost who needed protection. We abandon our brothers and sisters for nothing more than a little seclusion and for what??
Why do we wait until we are "older" to realize we cannot and must not keep on putting up road blocks to keep away people we think will hurt us, or people who may hinder us?
There is one powerful act of mankind that seems to be the most difficult act to perform..... FORGIVENESS one simple thing we can do for ourselves, to be free,heal and mend, only then can we move on.
I sacrificed a realationship with my oldest brother for many years for something I thought was right and it took the "culprit" the main pawn in the game to show me all along they made all the moves and I allowed it. For that I am sorry. I cannot change any of it, but I sure can make a difference from now on.
More to come........
Have you ever done something in your life and walked away from it, or had it taken away from you then realized that that ONE single act still holds the one missing piece to your puzzle of life? I think that it takes some people a lifetime to ever get back what they lost. Some never find that missing link again and they go on about their daily lives always knowing in their hearts that they are not complete.
