Forgiveness

People contemplate the most difficult act in the world. Some may say jumping the Grand Canyon, some may say running a mile under 4 minutes, some may say swimming the English Channel, but one of the most difficult acts in life is forgiveness. Forgiveness is always sought, but not always granted. Delving into your inner heart, sometimes yields no forgiveness. It is easy to love someone, it is easier to hate someone, but it is never easy to forgive someone. The most difficult part of forgiveness is the inability to weigh out the benefits of forgiveness with the consequences of no forgiveness. There is no act that can be committed that should be unforgivable. Forgiveness is one of the greatest gifts to give or receive from anyone. The hardest concept to grasp is that everyone is human. Everyone has feelings that can be broken. Everyone needs forgiveness.

Change

"Be the change you wish to see in the world" Gandhi

The world is a complicated mess. Genocide, infanticide, insecticide and all of these others exist. Changing the world is always necessary, sometimes successful, but never easy. The best way to change the world is change yourself. No matter what you think of yourself, people may think very highly of you. People always look for inspiration amongst others. The positive change in ourselves could change the lives of hundreds, thousands, millions. The easiest thing in the world is to never change. Its easy to ignore everything and go about our days mindlessly. It takes the courage and the strength to stand up and change. The courage to do the right thing is in all of us. Its trapped waiting to be released. You just have to open it up, and change for the better. The biggest enemy of change is doubt and fear. Doubt that you cannot ever change and fear of what it is like when things are changed. Step up, reach out and find that inspiration to change. Change for your sister, for your brother, for your parents, but mostly change for yourself. Maybe one person will read this and find the desire to change. If I can effectively reach one person, success will be achieved.

5000

5000 is a decently small number, but if I receive 5,000 hits to my blog between now and October 31st, I will write a book.

The Path to Truth

A struggle, a fight for the truth, has finally come to an end for me. The fork in the road exists no longer. It is merely something I will see as I quickly look into my mirror. Next Thursday begins the start of the right path. I traveled through this path once, and turned my back on it. Turned my back on the truth, on the perfect fit.

Change It

If you don't like the past, change it. Change it, but it's not that easy. You can't simply change the past. It is in the past; therefore unchangeable. The past teaches lessons that many of us can easily learn from. The greatest gift that the past gives us is the ability to know what to do in the future. The past is the past. There is nothing that anyone can do to fix the past now. The only thing we can do is be better prepared for the future

Your Own Path

Each person is his or her person. Each person has their own path to take. This path is best forged by yourself. The easy path is following in the footsteps of another person. Matching each step of theirs with a step of your own. Following every move, every breath. The best path is to make your own path. Keep individuality and forge your own path. If you seem to be following in someone's footsteps, then do something. Show them that you are your own person and not some mindless follower. A follower, not an individual, does not flourish as well in life. Lead your own path do not follow in the shadow of someone else.

Fake

Today, I stumbled upon a basket full of luscious fruit. Upon approaching the basket, I determined that the fruit was all plastic as part of an ingenious plan to draw me into it. I quickly grabbed one of the false fruits to examine it more thoroughly. I discovered an alarming fact about the illegitimate fruit. It was not only fake, but also more expensive than real fruit. Puzzled, I began to question why this could ever happen. It may have take a considerable amount of time and thought to fully understand the meaning of all of this. I was puzzled, but then it hit me like a train. We now live in a world that is so based on being fake that we can hardly appreciate what is real. We search for something that is fake more than something that is real. We search for a significant other who looks very great from the outside with little imperfections, but has nothing on the inside. The inside is a empty as the fake fruit I observed. sad, sad, sad...