Sometimes we are too hard
@C_MySide (13)
Johannesburg, South Africa
July 30, 2021 7:34pm CST
Its 2am and I find myself awake with thoughts about past situations. I feel that I could have been more understanding.
However, what I knew and understood then, to what I know now are really different..
We are hard on other people, and we don't think about what that person has or is going through. Sometimes because we are having a crappy day, we take it out on everyone around us, which isn't fair...
We are selfish when we do that because the way we react to something can either make someone's entire day or week, OR it can break it into a thousand peices...
We tend to snap very quickly, or jump to our own conclusions, and the situations we are in or have been in could go/or have gone in a completely different direction and have a completely different outcome. Does that make sense?.. we need to start being a little bit more aware of how our actions affect those around us... The change begins with us, the more we become better, the better the people around us become as we mirror those around us and the more time we spend with someone, the more we start to mimic them.
My parents always used to say, "You are the company you keep".. never understood it properly until i went through something, and lost everything because of who I became, and who "I CHOSE" to surround myself with.
It costs nothing to be kind... Everything comes down to CHOICE, don't ever forget that.
xxx
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@moffittjc (121604)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 Jul 21
I've often laid awake at night thinking about the past, about how things may have turned out differently if I had made different decisions back then. But then I realize that I am who I am today because of those past actions. And I really wouldn't want to change the person I've become. I've been through good and bad, highs and lows, and I think that has made me a more well-rounded person. Maybe I was a selfish jerk in my younger days, but it helped me become a more caring and loving person today. I always choose to be kind, positive and upbeat these days, as life is too short to be any other way.
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@C_MySide (13)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
31 Jul 21
Im so happy to hear that.. it's good to have something like our past to compare our current self to..
Some of us may not be where we wanted to be at this stage of our life, but we are alot further than where we were, and that is amazing to look at.
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@moffittjc (121604)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 Jul 21
@C_MySide So true. In our younger days, we hadn't fully developed into a mature adult yet. We also weren't aware as much of how our actions affected others. I've become much more cognizant these days of how my life affects others around me.
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@C_MySide (13)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
3 Aug 21
@moffittjc that I can definitely agree with... These days I'm also more aware and it's good because the moment you are aware of your actions, you can statin correcting the behaviour until you reach a point where you become aware of it before you do it. Eventually, you stop doing it all together.
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@kaylachan (69789)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Jul 21
Its true. It's also hard. Sometimes we get caught in the emotion of the moment, and things just don't work as expected.
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@C_MySide (13)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
31 Jul 21
I completely agree with you.. my emotions are what lead me, so I get it