A good friend, a poet and author wrote the following words. Not written for, about or to me especially. I feel these are words worth sharing with the world at this time and words that deserve to survive whatever comes next…
There is much talk of kindness in these troubled times, much talk of forgiveness and tolerance and understanding, but are we really, truly, being any of these things? We were sitting at a red light in our Jeep and it dawned on me, how tense I was, how wound up and anxious and, well, scared of the general state of things. I had to take a deep breath and remind myself, that all of these unsteady, unwanted things, would subside- and they will and they do. We are a lot of things, but we are NOT static. We always move, we always adapt and in doing so, we get smarter and bolder and braver and more understanding.
There are so many good people.
There are so many helpful, authentic, lovely people.
They are easy to spot. They’re always the ones helping other people. They are always the ones showing compassion and reason and mercy. They are always the ones with an even hand, extended outward, lifting us all up.
The best is yet to come.
And the worst is yet to come.
This is human life.
Being good hearted through out it all, will give you plenty of happy days, because you’ll be with the people that help you and lift you up. Your friends, are your treasures. Find the good people.
I have a very dear friend for over 20 years that I had a very troublesome conversation with yesterday. What it boiled down to, at least in my mind and heart, that chose to come down heavy on me because I don’t agree with her on what is happening in Canada right now. Most heartbreaking was the anger she felt/feels towards me. Sadly humans don’t always agree with each other. Nasty words are spoken and one can only hope that the friendship will make it through the troubled times. I can say that a strong friendship can make it to the other side !!
B.H.
Well, that is only the second time I have not written any of my own words in a blog-post on this site. I hope it is something you found as useful as I did and as useful as I hope it will be for me as we go through changes that we did not see coming.
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