Our Differences

"In life we often do not get what we deserve, nor that for which we work. Often, in life, we get what we expect to get."

Perhaps this breaks down those people who everyone watches with mystery. Everyone knows someone who is ungrateful for the things they have, and yet always receives more. The perfect job, the big house, the loving wife, the healthy child, and still they always get more. The mentality of judgement lingers beneath their skin as if to think they were handed these object from somewhere, yet it is somewhere no one has yet to discover. The mishaps of this world can be difficult to swallow. Thoughts of sadness turn as one may stare at a struggling wife, with the loss of a child, a house near foreclosure, and yet the dedicated church family still clings to faith. Do we not receive what we deserve, but merely what we expect?

It is hard to comprehend at times when surrounded by family. Do we want to associate ourselves with judgemental, harsh individuals because they have found materialistic greatness? Then if we surround ourselves with those who attract negative energy do we not in turn also become victim to the energy that surrounds them?

Many contemplate this as they consider the possibilities that one would never expect hardship, but do we not when we doubt the greatness others have?

Perhaps engraved in our DNA the thoughts and expectations of our lives, and our goals are to overcome the hardships. It is hard to imagine one has this desire to be homeless especially in the winter months, yet so many stay homeless day after day. Of course not anyone says they want to be homeless when they grow up, but what do they do once they are homeless? This is something I may never understand for I am not in that situation so I cannot judge nor tell one what they do to enable something of the sort. What are we saying as society when we walk past the dirty old man standing near the side of the road. If he was a woman would you be more likely to help? If he had small children would it make that much of a difference? Are they really that different from ourselves?

I contemplate what our society is turning into as I search the foreclosure sites on the Internet. In this area code alone 1377 houses went into foreclose. 1377 families are not without their home. At times like these I wished for large amounts of cash to help those in need. I wondered which houses were vacant as I drove past random empty houses noticeable by the street. In a town of 2 million people how many are losing their homes? Word has it that 40 houses go up for auction a day. Do we look the other way because it is not us? What happens when it is us, do we wonder why no one is around to help when we too neglected others just like us?

It is hard to expect the best when so many around us have nothing, perhaps that is the difference between those that have nothing and those that have everything. Are they selfish and know it, or it is something in their subconscious that allows them to be so stern and rude yet successful?

"In life we often do not get what we deserve, nor that for which we work. Often, in life, we get what we expect to get." The SECRET everyone is talking about says, expect only greatness and the hardships will melt away.