A guy sets his girlfriend's roommate up on a blind date. The guy that set her up on this blind date only said that the guy was a great guy and would treat her right. So she dressed all up and waited for him to show up. She lived on the top floor of her dorm. She was angered when 30 min after the set time had passed and he still had not knocked on her door. Soon a knock came and there stood one a handsome young man holding a single rose. Seeing the handsome man she forgave the tardiness at once. But then The words out of the mans mouth were odd. " Your date is at bottom of the stairs." With that the handsome young man was gone. She walked down the steps confused and then she saw him. A young man sitting in a wheelchair 11 more roses on his lap. She looked at him and felt pity at first then that pity turned to embarrassment. She could not think of being seen with this man. She thought of him as useless and more of a burden than any thing else. Instantly she knew his "type", the poor girl that would be "stuck" with him would end up working a full time job to support the crippled up "Loser" he would become. With that she handed the rose back and lied." sorry you must of got the wrong dorm number"
He wheeled away knowing the truth.
Not 9 years later she was walking into a job interview with the wealthiest magazine owner. She waited wondering what she would do if she could not get a job. She had married and her husband could not keep a job with the lack of control over his anger. When she finally was called upon she walked in to the nice office to find sitting at the window looking out the same young man she had walked away from years before. She gasped. What had she let go off?
Why are we so quick to look at some one and pretend we know every thing about them. We have no clue who they are to be. We to not know what has happened in their past or what will happen in their future. What happens to a person in their childhood shapes them. It is that way for every one.
Who are you? What made you that way, and what you will become? You are all the things you have learned in your life, every decision made, every thought that enters your mind is shaping you. I am not the same person I was last week as I am now, for everything that I face changes me. In my life I have seen quite a few trials. When others hear of the things I have been through, they try to pity me. I do not want pity; I never have. I have the reward of living through my hard times; that reward is who I am.
“Kindness can come from being treated unkindly, or being unkind can cause more unkindness.” This depends on your character.There have been cases where an abused child grows up to be the abuser, in a never- ending chain. I like to believe that there are some that brake from the chain.The decisions made in someone’s life can shape them into who they are. I made a decision that I would not be made unkind by the unkind acts shown to me. Making choices can lead you in different directions in your life. The thing is some are not as strong. When you see a woman who dresses inappropriately and treats her self like she is not worth more, it could be that that is what her abusive mother or father hammered into her brain when she was only 5 years old. That man in the wheel chair may look like he can not do much athletically but you can not see all the knowledge that brain of his holds. The boy that can not pass his math test with out a tutor could have been bad at math all of his life and this is a improvement, should he not be praised instead of put down? Who are we to judge who a person is or who they will become? So next time you look at some one and are about to make up some fake person you think they are... why not walk up to them and see what they are really made of?
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