What's It All Mean?

What's it mean;

• when you trust someone and they betray that trust?
• when you love someone whole heartedly but it's not returned?
• when you show interest in someone and they don't show it back?
• when you extend kindness to another and it's rejected?
• when someone does you wrong and you don't want to forgive them?
• when someone does you wrong and you keep forgiving them?
• when someone takes your faith and makes fun of it?
• when someone uses your faith as the butt of jokes?
• when someone is a friend only when it's convienent for them?
• when your friendships turn in a different direction?
• when someone's your friend as long as you're seeing it their way?
• when someone's your friend only to gain from you?
• when someone's your friend only because of who they can meet through you?
• when someone acts like your friend but isn't remotely interested in being a friend?
• when someone's actions don't match their words?
• when someone says they value something and then acts against it?
• when someone kicks you while you're down?
• when someone points out your failures?
• when someone wants to point out your faults and short comings?
• when someone doesn't want to pay you what you're worth or what's fair?
• when someone says they have your back and they show they really don't?

Think of all the additional things you could add to this list. What it all means to me is "It's life". It means to me that no matter how someone else is playing the game of life doesn't mean I need to play at their level or even play with them at all. The biggest thing I've learned this year is forgiveness and the power in it. It's also been hard since when I forgive I have to give up my right to get even. I still find a way to get rid of the negativeness and hurt and forgive the person not for them but for myself.

So what does it all mean... that I get lots of practice rising above it and soaring like the eagle I was meant to be. Everything I do today is just in preparation for something much larger to come!!