Comments on: In the waiting line… http://absolutk.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/in-the-waiting-line/ For the Offbeat Addicts / Pour les Accrocs du Décalé Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:17:08 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: anonUSA http://absolutk.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/in-the-waiting-line/#comment-4582 anonUSA Sat, 02 May 2009 23:36:21 +0000 http://absolutk.wordpress.com/?p=412#comment-4582 . . . . and others rush forward, making mistakes that yield little or no satisfaction, just like your description of never having taken action at all. While on the one hand their flawed decisions allow them to live a life, their mistakes can be really devastating. There is no right way for most of us; even those people who appear to "land on their feet" for years at a time don't have it all. How do they test themselves if nothing ever goes wrong; how do they know what calibre of person they are? Unless you have looked into the abyss - emotional, financial or otherwise - and kept churning forwards, how can you know yourself? Until someone has treated you dreadfully and you have managed to turn the other cheek - perhaps for years - how can you know your depth of character. How do those who have always met success know what other paths they may have missed? If God didn't think you could carry these burdens, he would not send them your way. Perhaps it is his way of helping you realize what a good person you are? . . . . and others rush forward, making mistakes that yield little or no satisfaction, just like your description of never having taken action at all. While on the one hand their flawed decisions allow them to live a life, their mistakes can be really devastating.

There is no right way for most of us; even those people who appear to “land on their feet” for years at a time don’t have it all. How do they test themselves if nothing ever goes wrong; how do they know what calibre of person they are? Unless you have looked into the abyss – emotional, financial or otherwise – and kept churning forwards, how can you know yourself? Until someone has treated you dreadfully and you have managed to turn the other cheek – perhaps for years – how can you know your depth of character. How do those who have always met success know what other paths they may have missed?

If God didn’t think you could carry these burdens, he would not send them your way. Perhaps it is his way of helping you realize what a good person you are?

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