Friday, June 22, 2012
Fragile?
From what I understand, not too many people realize the fragility of the personal relationships they have. Think of your wife, husband, girlfriend. boyfriend or even a best friend. What makes them that person in your life and not a stranger you pass on the street? There are countless little decisions that make you have that bond that you have with them. Now imagine if you changed just one of those decisions, what would change if anything at all? You may think that nothing would, but I disagree. I like to think that if you changed one decision than you may unravel everything that you have built. In my life, there are the huge decisions that are obvious. If my parents had never chosen to move to Phoenix, AZ then this blog probably wouldn't be being written and nothing in the context of it would be the same. But what about the little decisions? I can trace my life to these small moments that now in retrospect are enormous and life changing but at the time have almost no thought involved. What if my parents hadn't chosen to live in the house they did, and instead bought a house 3 streets away? My sisters don't know their husbands then, and I don't have the nephew that I have, I don't know my lovely girlfriend Breanna, I wouldn't be working where I am, and I would never have had the same interactions I have had. The reason being? A lady by the name of Jeanie Goodrich would have never invited us to Phoenix First Church of the Nazarene. But then I think about the decision she made... What if she never asked us to go and see what it was about? What if we had already found a church to attend? Or what if my parents just never had faith in Christ that they have? You change any 1 of those incredibly small insignificant decisions and you change your life entirely. At the time you don't realize the impact of these decisions. That blows my mind that things are so fragile and so intricately worked. I think that is why I value people so much more than others. If I care about you then I will do whatever it takes for you, and I find more and more in my life that people like that are very few and far between. People find people as fillers or time passers and don't value their opinions and personalities and amazing qualities. That alone breaks my heart. I would give up 100 time passers for 1 person I could never forget and our culture doesn't value that anymore. I think people need to sit back and think of those who they love and care about and if they are really honest with themselves start to treat them as fragile as the situation is. Love and cherish those you have, because 1 change in the decision making process makes them strangers.
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Very deep, little bro!
ReplyDelete-Sarah