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Times like these
By Steve Krevolt

You meet a friend after not seeing them in a while, you feel nervous and joy together because you realize that they haven’t reached out to you in sometime. Then as you think this you realize that you actually did the same. In times like these you learn forgiveness.

You have your child, you visit your parents with them. As your there enjoying these times your mother offers to take your child for a weekend but you become hesitant to this because if its not yourself there as she tends to him you feel your neglecting your child though it’s the woman who raised you. Times like these you learn proper parenting.

You get cut off on a highway by a person that nearly missed their exit. You become bothered by this and begin to become enraged. As you get close enough on the side of this person you suddenly remember when you did the same thing to another. Time like these you learn to empathize.

Your go to the supermarket to food shop. On the way in you notice a homeless person outside the exit begging for spare change. The whole time that your in the store you’re preparing a way to avoid them when you pass them on the way out. SO now your heading for the exit where the homeless person us still there. Your prepared to walk right past him but as you do you remember a time being hungry with no means to eat. You turn to him and hand him change he looks at you and thanks you kindly. Times like these you learn compassion.

Your significant other starts an argument with you for what seems to be no reason at all. As they are carrying on and you are just waiting to get your anger out at them. You pause, they sit and wait for your retaliation to occur. You stop, you think. Maybe I should ask what was the cause of them starting the argument in the first place. So you ask them and they explain the natures of their wrongs that caused this. The argument now became a releiving talk between the 2 of you and it ends with a sorry and a kiss. In times like these we learn cooperation.

A Brother of ours is struggling. He is constantly living in a perdition consumed with bad choices and loneliness since the rest of the family is hardly ever there to support them or speak a kind word of hope. Now you start to think, that this is the best possible time to do so in what seems like the first time in forever. You sit them down in preparation to extend our words of love and hope. Inside we feel that they may feel like your going sound or look like a hypocritical person to them. Realizing our intentions are pure, You now proceed with these kind words and project the sincerity of your hearts words through our eyes to theirs as we speak. He calmly accepts your words and realizes He isn’t alone anymore. Times like this we learn Brotherhood.

You and Your loved one in whom you have a child with prepare to part your separate ways. Although at the time seems like the right thing to do for each others happiness. As time goes by you realize that the decision to split was solely base on each others happiness and not of the child’s best interest. You now become complacent to each others selfish reasons for parting. You both now point fingers numerous times on numerous occasions crippling the possibilities of a reconciliation. We speak kind words one day, but on the following day we throw verbal jabs at each other building personal resentments due to the nature of our statements to each other. Now there’s no hope so you continue down our own personal irrational selfish paths once again forgetting the importance of friendly reconciliation for the sake of the child. As time passes you analyze the natures of our personal wrongs and want to set all our painful, personal past to the side and carry out our separate happy lives as we collaboratively due our jobs as parents. Times like these we learn the consequences of our acts.

Times like these we learn that through proper steps that everyday we grow, We learn, And we realize that nothing is more important then the constant growth as a compassionate, flawed being, One in whom practices forgiveness whenever possible and realizes that words are powerful. They can build love, trust and hope but also they can express hate, negativity and cause the separation of man and woman to the point of severing parenthood. Friendship and Brotherhood.

Times like these we learn through means of growth in which makes you realize that we are always held accountable for our words as well as the consequences of our acts.

Good luck on your personal path of spiritual awareness and personal growth, I sincerely hope this helps to guide someone in their time of need and confusion.

Peace Love and Strength always
Thank you for your time.