I've learned

I've learned that we all get hurt. At some point in our life each of us will fight some sort of emotional battle which will in turn dictate our character, our disposition in life, our overall way of treating other people and reacting to future battles. Funny thing is though, we really do have the option to take from each battle whatever we want. We can take the good being the "lesson" or we can take the bad being the part the we feel "wronged" us. Why is it that so many of us choose to move forward with the chip on our shoulder that screams "I was hurt... I deserve the option to treat people badly because of it"? What I find most ironic is this... Often we pledge our dislike, disregard or hate for someone for the way they have treated us or the lack of thereof and yet in turn we treat everyone else the exact same way. Because of the hurt one person has caused us we become that person hurtful person without even noticing it. And we someone brings it to our attention we feel mistreated and offended because somehow we think we're the victim. My final thoughts on the subject are this: Life is hard but it's beautiful too. People are going to hurt you, that part is inevitable but it does not give you the right to hurt other people. Let go... move on... learn from it... be a better friend... be a better person.

Original Date: 4/21/2009