Be Kind

Let's get serious for a moment.

Since the beginning of this year, a few people I know (some quite young) have passed away. Cancer, Suicide. It really goes to show that you never know what someone else is going through. The battles and struggles raging internally. Things can be quite different behind closed doors and seemingly happy smiles. And so, you can't know what it's like. Not really anyway. You're not there in the morning when their alarm goes off, and you're not there at the end of a long day when they fall into bed at night.

Sure, some people's problems may seem small compared to your own. And, perhaps they are. Perhaps their reality is skewed. But, the thing is, it doesn't make their problems feel any less so to them.

Or, on the other hand, perhaps their problems are in fact much larger than your own. Insurmountable in their eyes. By natural design, someone's always going to have it worse than you. It's easy to feel bad. It's easy to judge. It's easy to do pretty much anything except for be that person.

Sometimes things just suck and there aren't happy endings. Sometimes the endings are just inexplicably sad - plain and simple. Sure, there can be silver linings to every scenario, but sometimes it's damn near impossible to find them.

It reminds me of that saying..."Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."