When we look back at our past and see sorrow and pain, or how we have treated people, and even look at our life now and see this we have the choice of reacting in a good or bad way to this.
We can look back and say that we don’t want to see other people suffer as we did and then we can use our life to lift people up and help them grow in love and usefulness, we can understand their sufferings, we have the ability to take away their sufferings because we too have been there, we know how it feels and we know how to help.
Or we can decide “stuff the world!” and then hit the parties and believe that we are in some strange way getting back at those who hurt us in the past. All we are really doing is setting ourselves up for a big fall, pain, anguish and illnesses that are the result of the life where we push our bodies with late nights and abusive behaviors. Many feel that lust, drugs and parties will take them away from the world – but that is simply that their minds will be occupied for a while and then the payment hits and usually hard.
Do realise that you do have the choice of reacting to any bad done to you in a bad manner or in a good manner. But if you choose a negative manner, you will pay the price for it. Turn the other cheek. Apologize to those you have wronged. Improve from this point on and then life will progress upwards for you instead of downwards.
If you choose to help other people then you will reap the rewards of helping them, you will bring them joy and not sorrow, and will be releasing them from their torments and addictions etc.
If you are suffering now then consider how you feel right now. You don’t like this, and tell yourself that when you can in the future, you can help others be released from this very feeling that you have now. Use this motivation to push you forward to success and happiness – leave negative feelings and negative attitudes in the past.
Use your life for good. If evil has torn your life apart, tear evil apart with a loving caring heart and soul. Make your life worthy, make it special, and make it count for something.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
February 1, 2013.