There Are Worse Things In Life

I have had the pleasure of being a leader a guide a mentor, whatever you want to call it, in so many lives.

It's so awkward trying to be that person to someone when you should be listening to your own advice...

A friend who has struggled her entire life to get one step ahead of the game, busts her ass to make things happen for herself or her children... who just wants to build a happy life with someone she can take care of and they will do the same in return... for her children to have the life she never did when she was growing up... the list goes on... I've been in touch with her over the last few days and she's not doing so well. Every time I hang up the phone I realize...

There Are Worse Things In Life...

When I drive home at night I see so much poverty and hunger and lost souls roaming the streets of the city or all piled on a sidewalk to get some rest or visiting with each other on this one corner I pass every night... Last night there were two men sitting on this particular corner, they seemed like that were having such a deep conversation. I wonder what they were talking about??? I'll bet it was something incredible, intelligent and intriguing... I see this everyday and every night now that I live in the city and everyday and every night I see it... I realize...

There Are Worse Things In Life...

How about the woman who rarely sits in my chair to have her hair done because she spends all her time and her energy raising her children and her children's children... Her entire family takes advantage of the fact that she will never tell them no. When she sits in my chair, she unloads. I hear about the neglect towards her and her grandchildren and the struggle she suffers with finances and health issues and all the things she wishes she would have done different and the curiosity she has in regards to how her life could've been different...

There Are Worse Things In Life...

How about the children in this world that never have love or mothers or daddies??? How about the children that are "ruined" because of neglect and will grow up to become disturbed troubled adults that make horrible decisions the rest of their lives because no one cared enough to teach them any different...

There Are Worse Things In Life...

How about the girl I work with??? She had an amazing relationship with her daddy and he recently made the decision that she is no longer his daughter! He dis-owned her if you will... This is killing her on the inside... to add to the stress she is struggling to finish her last semester of school so that she can start her career. Daddy would normally have been there to have her back and give her support, but no more... I have my Daddy so I know...

There Are Worse Things In Life...

Ooh... how about where I was 1 year ago???

There Are Worse Things In Life...

How about the poor???

How about the men and women that leave their family and homes to fight in a stupid war???

How about the families that are effected by a stupid war???

How about those that lose husbands or wives or children or siblings or parents or any family member they hold close to their hearts???

How about those that lose someone they love and never get the chance to tell them how they really feel... I Love You or Goodbye???

How about those who have diseases that are not only incurable, but deadly???

I guess when you get down or lost or confused or scared or sad... Just remember...

There Are Worse Things In Life!!!