Hurt People, Hurt People!

If you notice someone in your life that seems to always be hurting others you can be pretty sure that they have been hurt  somewhere back in their own past. Beware of hurting others for more than likely they will end up hurting others. Isn't it interesting that when someone has hurt our feelings, how easy it is for us to hurt others and not even know it. The other side of the coin is true as well. If you have been hurt, be careful to see that you don't pass the hurt on to unsuspecting others. The best thing you can do for yourself is to forgive others (even if they don't ask for it) to free up your future from your past and to open up your heart to healing.

Does Your Kiss Still Work? His does!

I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish. A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles of her mouth has been severed. She will be thus from now on. The surgeon had followed with religious fervor the curve of her flesh; I promise you that. Nevertheless, to remove the tumor in her cheek, I had to cut the little nerve. Her young husband is in the room. He stand on the opposite side of the bed and together they seem to dwell in the evening lamplight, isolated from me, private. Who are they, I ask myself, he and this wry mouth I have made, who gaze at and touch each other so generously, greedily? The young woman speaks, "Will my mouth always be like this?" she asks. "Yes," I say, "it will. It is because the nerve was cut." She nods and is silent. But the young man smiles. "I like it," he says, "It is kind of cute." "All at once I know who he is. I understand and I lower my gaze. One is not bold in an encounter with a god. Unmindful, he bends to kiss her crooked mouth and I am so close I can see how he twists his own lips to accommodate to hers, to show her that their kiss still works.”   

Richard Selzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

Everyone is Ignorant, Just on Different Topics

     Everyone knows that somebody who, because they know a lot about something, think they know a little (or a lot) about everything. Well you and I know better. Everybody is ignorant, just on different topics.  While the inner city kid may know nothing about wall street investments (apparently neither does Wall Street), the tycoon is usually ignorant of how to survive the streets. Is knowledge in some topics better than another? All knowledge is helpful, but obviously some is more beneficial than other. 
     Here is the point. Stop the next time you think you know everything about everything. For every topic you know something about there are many more you do not. Appreciate all knowledge and what it took to gain it and realize no one knows it all. Knowledge and wisdom are two different things. Think about that.

Life is Fair, Everyone Has One

Do you often think to yourself how unfair life has been to you? The truth is that life really is fair because in the end life impacts everyone. Everyone has negative events in their lives it is just that we don't usually see the unfair things happening to others while we suffer through the unfairness of life. Remember they may not see what you are going through either and that is what makes it fair to all. In reality most Americans really would not want life to be fair or we would have to give up so much to level the "fair" field with the rest of the world. Long or short, tragic or joyful; life is "fair," because eventually it is "unfair" to everyone.