Sometimes, I don't understand people. I don't understand how you can demand respect but not give it. I don't understand how you can forcefully argue you should be treated as an adult when you're acting like a child. I don't understand how you can expect someone to listen to your ideas and opinions when you won't give them the common courtesy by doing the same.
Okay, so I usually don't understand people.
It takes a lot sometimes to be the bigger person and take the higher road. It's not worth it to waste your breath and defend yourself when people are cemented in their false opinions about who you are or what you've done. People can call you a coward or accuse you of taking the easy way out, but that's not true. I think it is a thousand times harder to keep your mouth shut and just walk away from a situation that is spiraling out of control. From time to time, the only way to win is to lose.
Really, it is the same with my faith. The only way to 'win' everlasting life is to 'lose' who I am as a flesh and blood human. I have to give up selfishness, pride, hate, greed and impatience. 'I wish you could see me now. I wish I could show you how I'm not who I was.' It has been a long, hard road and will continue to be until the day I take my last breath, but it is completely worth it.
There are greater things in store for me, whether in this life or the next, so why should I let the negative opinions and words of those who ultimately don't matter bog me down? I have my treasure stored up in Heaven, and a family and group of true friends, near and far, who are worth their weight in gold.
Sometimes, life gives us hard lessons, but the learning is a victory for sure.
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