No One Understands !!!

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As long as there has been a human race there has been someone crying

out, " No one understands! " Somewhere along the way communications

have broken down and the result is misunderstanding.

 

To be misunderstood is painful. We keep wanting to explain and

explain until we get our message across. Sometimes it is the lack of

the wise use of words. Then, it may be an unwilling ear. But whatever

the race, the politics, sophisticated or home grown, everyone has the

desire to be understood. They want every motive, every mood,

completely and unquestionably understood.

 

But to be completely understood can also have its rebounds. A goddess

can turn into a woman, and a hero can slip into a man when only one

of their moods is completely understood.

 

Understanding breeds familiarity. Familiarity many not breed

contempt, but it can certainly take the edge off the mystery. And, it

is mystery that keeps life interesting.

 

In all wisdom, we should worry much less about being completely

understood, and make a more diligent effort to understand others.

 

Something dies within us when no one cares. It is a circumstance of

our own making when we have failed to give to another the thought and

concern that would have helped when it was most needed.

 

Sorrows can be borne because others care. Greatness can be achieved

because someone cared. To care is our purpose.

 

Who knows but that these small acts of sympathy and understanding may

place another life into the one slot on the jigsaw puzzle of life.

 

If we were all the things we expect of others, the result would be

perfection. We would be perfect in forgiveness, faithful in love, and

devoted in the welfare of others. Such excellence has never been

accomplished, except that we work continually for it. To work for it,

we have to care. And for someone to care is the thing that matters.

 

" Instead of allowing yourself to be so unhappy, just let your love

grow as God wants it to grow; seek goodness in others, love more

persons more; love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without

thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself. "