The gift.

As a child he was always curious, always aware of things around him. He cared about the feelings of others. Sometimes crying if he had caused others pain. For years he never fought back unless it was the only way out of a situation. He was lucky at love. The girls loved his gentle unassuming ways. As a young man he joined the military. Learned to kill, to defend, to protect. Brief insights along the way, made him question more and more. What are the answers he kept asking, looking everywhere he could. Things happened in his life that most never see. Things that led him to ponder the deeper questions of origin, the whys, the hows. Things got bad now and then and sometimes he lost his way. The path he was on not always clear. One thing through out it all is his willingness to help others. Some compulsion towards compassion, drove him to give of himself. Then it happened, reverse synchronicity. Things all happening at once it seemed. These things told him he needed to do something. He made the wrong decision, almost costing him his life. The pain, the time to heal, time to think about what went wrong. Eventually led up to this day, the day he realized his gift. His gift it seems, is the one he asked for, somwwhere along the line. The gift he now realizes is so precious. Out his caring, his need to understand, he finally understood. We are here to learn, and in learning what we need to know, we learn how to make things right. He learned what things to let go of, what things to keep. He learned that every problem can be solved,that must be solved. He learned that in helping others, he was also helping himself. He learned that is always easier to be courteous, than to defend being rude. He learned the true nature of his gift. No matter how much he gives of what he has, it never runs out, because it is free. It is this marvelous thing called wisdom. And the equation to attain it is: experience plus knowledge plus understanding equals wisdom. Written April 4th, 2002 © on Apr 03 2002 08:02 PM PST, Richard Vance Haeckel   0 • 10