WE WERE placed on this earth for a reason and a purpose that is known. And yet that truth gets lost in the midst of existence. We forget why we are here and remember only that we are here. We are here for a reason and a purpose.
And with that reality we meet two kinds of people in this life. Perhaps among the thousands of people we get to know, the ones who will be significant will be of two sorts. The ones who will support you and the ones who will reject you. The former will encourage you, the latter will challenge you. Nevertheless they both bring lessons.
Those who encourage you will see you for what you are. They will believe in you, cheer you on and not stand in the way. They are the ones who inspire you to be who you are and what you can be. They can be your friends, your relatives, your teacher or anyone who says to you, I believe in you.
And then of course there are those who are blind to who you are. They cannot see you. So they do not understand or refuse to do so.They are those who say you are weird, strange, odd. If those who believe in you are stepping stones, these are stumbling blocks but they are what they are and it is really your choice. It is a challenge for most of us to deal with these people but if we go beyond the façade we realize that they can be of tremendous help. They make us do what they think we can never achieve.
With those who see us, we are capable of great things because they trust us. With those who are blind, we do the impossible because they think we cannot do it. Both make us better.
We are fortunate that there are those who see our light and yet we should be grateful to those who try to impose themselves on us. Who try to make us what they are. They make us fight even more. They make our light shine even brighter. We know who they are.
The ones who see you rejoice with you. The ones who do not try to label you. Either way, you win. Do not listen those who cannot understand. You owe them nothing. Embrace those who can. They see you. Rejection is not an exclusion. Rather it is a revelation.
Let us be what Rumi once said “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.” Or if you want to be flippant about it, follow the advice of the writer Mary Higgins Clark who wrote “When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
So, there.