August 17, 2009
As we travel along our path we witness and experience many
bad things. The bad things often come in the form of diseases or illness that
people develop or catch, sometimes accidents happen and injure or kill people,
and sometimes other people inflict bad things upon each other. Regardless of
the form a bad thing takes, they are always difficult to deal with and often
seem to happen to good people.
In fact some of the best people live lives filled with pain,
suffering and agony. It is not these events but how we react to them that
define us. Many good people face one bad thing after another, and it leaves
many feeling guilty, as if they must have done something wrong to deserve the
suffering. But I believe bad things are mostly a random occurrence and no
matter how you live your life bad things can always find you.
When bad things happen and especially when they seem to
happen repeatedly it is hard to fight the feelings of guilt and frustration. It
is easy to think you must have done something wrong to deserve all this pain
and suffering. You must remain strong and have faith in yourself and believe
that you are a good person and that bad things are random occurrences.
To believe that bad things happen as punishment is to believe
that you are guilty. To give in and start believing you deserve it is to give
up. Giving up only makes things worse and makes you feel worse. When you have
given up and are feeling bad you become more vulnerable to bad things and even
little problems begin to look like huge problems. To never give up regardless
of how bad things get is to show true strength and faith in self.
There are bad things that we bring upon ourselves. Some
habits and situations that we put ourselves in increase our risk for bad
things. Sometimes we expose ourselves to risk factors without even knowing it
and other times we knowingly make ourselves more vulnerable. Even when we
knowingly increase our chances for bad things to happen there is still chance
at play. Not everyone who smokes develops caner, not everyone who drives while
intoxicated plows into a family of five, there still is no telling when or
where bad things will happen. We must control the things we can to reduce our
risk and not let our faith in ourselves slip.
“Never give in, never give up and never let anyone or anything
make you believe you are not a good person.”
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