If You Only Knew

People can be so rude, so mean, so angry. We are all so self centered that we seem to forget there are others around us, others that have things going on in their lives. How is it that we can be so mean to one another, a perfect stranger at times, or not a stranger usually, what gives us that right?

I was at the store today, purchasing some needed items, and someone was just rude. Who asked you? Why are you butting into my life? Your comment hurt me, but you don't know that, because I brushed it off, you don't know because I smiled like everything was okay. But you did, it was rude, and it was unnecessary.

If only you knew, if only you knew what was going on in my life, if only you understood how I'm struggling to get by, if only you knew how I felt everyday, if only you knew what my life consisted of, if only you knew, but you don't. It's okay because most people don't, we assume what we see is what we get.

Although hurt, I am not angry, I know that you too must have a lot going on in your life. I don't know you, I can't possibly understand your motivations for giving completely unasked for critical advice, yet I don't harbor any resentment because I'm sure your life isn't easier either...no one's really is. So I forgive you, as I do most people because...well I don't really know why, I just do.

Life is full of struggles, even the people that seem to have it all together have their problems too. I just wish that there was more kindness, more understanding, and more love in the world.

I hope to teach my children to have compassion for others, to love fully, to forgive even when they were in the right. I want them to see people for the good that they have, not the bad that they exude. I want them to care, to think of other's feelings, and to love. I hope that the things I do now are the right ones, I hope that I show them compassion and love for others, and for them. I hope they see how kindness pay and how yucky it truly does feel to be rude to one another. I hope.