After all I have learned in my life previously and recently. I can't stress enough how important your words and how you choose to treat others affects us all. Sometimes how we perceive something is just not how it really is.
Hearts are fragile no matter who you are....It is in my opinion and maybe even my gender, the most fragile part of a person.
Growing up in my elementary and jr high days it was common to say the very STUPID phrase "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." From my own personal experiences I can tell you that though I would say it or even participate with an action that lead up to it being said.. I was hurting to the core...But we were deceived into believing that if we said it or did it then it would ease our pain. When in reality it intensifies it. Most of the time if the words or actions come from someone you don't care about you are able to forget it and move on..However when it comes from those you love or even like it can place you in a pit. A pit you weren't aware you were in until you've attempted to climb out of it only to find yourself continually slipping....My pit had to have begun 5 yrs ago...Since then I find myself climbing its walls only to slip and fall again...Yet it is amazing to me how my heart continues to endure. Even though I am in it I still manage to reach out to those in need, strive to help them, and encourage them out of their pit....But even in doing so I have learned that people see what they want, hear what they want, do what they want, and say what they want...And while they are doing it they still expect you to climb out and help them and jump back in when your done, only to walk away and leave you to fend for yourself. They come back to you repeatedly and yell down they are throwing you a rope because now pulling you out benefits them....Sometimes they don't even know they are doing it...That's the crazy part...Sometimes they can't hear your heartbeat, your gasps for air, your cries, or pleas because they have always relied on you. In the midst of your screams for help you realize no one is listening...They just pass you by as if they have adapted to your cries...I believe this is how suicide can so easily creep in and claim a life prematurely...After awhile of crying out you began to lose your voice, your throat gets dry, and your now whimpering. Hoping someone hears you before it's too late. Before you dehydrate, starve, or just simply give up.
I can tell you I have no intentions of giving up I will get out of my pit...But now I understand what God meant when He said it is not good that anyone should be alone or when He said 2 is better then 1. I understand it because I live it everyday.... I know that there are several out there and near who care about me and for that I am very grateful.. Yet there are those who claim to know me but can't hear my heartbeat, pleas, or pulse...I don't believe it is from a lack of hearing but rather adapting to the sound and simply Tuning Out the pain of another.....
Life happens to us all even the best of us. But I am a listener and when I hear the heartbeat, pleas, or pulse of another who's hurting I listen...yes I like to talk, but I listen to the very core of the person (if allowed), and try to be apart of the solution needed at the time....Now I said all of that not for your pity but rather your action to be someone's solution...My questions to you all today is: Are you listening to the heartbeat and the pulse of those in need Or have you grown so accustom to the sound of their need that you have Tuned them Out? If so ask yourself what if it were you? Don't Tune people out and leave them in the pit. No throw them a rope and help them get out you just may save a life....or give them hope to go on...
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