Whenever my mom would came across reading material she found meaningful enough to share, she would clip it out and save it until the time was appropriate.
It’s one of the many things I loved about her.
I speak in past tense because my mom suffers from an awful disease that we call “Alzheimer’s.”
It has robbed her memory, changed her quality of life and invaded her privacy. For this, I am grief stricken. It is a disease that affects all – all that choose to love and support her.
It has been over a year now that I have carried around this beautiful message – A Lesson In Life . I found it while cleaning out my parent’s vacation home. I now feel a desire to share it with you.
My hope is that you gain inner strength and peace from reading it.
My best always,
Patricia
A Lesson In Life
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck.
Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere.
If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open your heart to.
If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.
Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.
Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either.
You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it!
~Anonymous
