Take a look at your children. If they're young, how they smile and laugh at the simplest things. Their astonishment when they find out how things work for the first time. A new word, a new math problem learned and the excitement of a new found friend. Their innocence let's you know that you are doing the job you need to do. That you physically had a hand in making them or that your love for them has made them yours makes no difference. You become just as innocent at the thought that these came from you and will forever require you to maintain a lasting supply of true love needed for deposit. If they're older, your pride has no limits as you watch them succeed through gain or loss. To see them learn life lessons that will allow them jump on their own soon brings tears to your eyes knowing you have done the job you needed to do. Through frustration and failure, wisdom and foolishness...you begin to see mirror images of the best of you.
Take a look at your home and remember the man you walk past at the train station near your home that sleeps nightly on a cold bench. Or the woman that sleeps on a piece of cardboard just a few feet from your door. Who knows why they are in the condition they are in but in their minds, they've sunk so deep into their hole, the way out is too daunting to climb till the floor they are standing on becomes their home. All of a sudden, those dirty walls don't bother you as much because you realize you have walls that shelter you from the elements. Take a look at where you've been and what it took to get to where you are today. Take stock and find yourself blessed beyond measure. Not that you should be content to the point of stagnation. Yet content enough to reason away all petty complaints that drives one into unnecessary misery. So many are blessed and have not taken the time to notice. Take a look around, see it all for yourself and rest in the peace gratitude provides...I'm out
~Moses Apollo
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