Perception

Here is the thing; our perception is all we have. We do the best we can with the information available to us, and, if we open our minds to the possibility that our first assessment could have been wrong, modify our perception as new information becomes available. Kindness can be show for ulterior motives, perceived meanness can be no more then another just going about his own good.

The dead have no concern until the resurrection; all we do in life for the dead is for the living. If you look at it, everything a person does is for them selves. You do an act of kindness for another not because the other demands it, rather because you choose to for what ever reason you decided to act upon. Maybe it was because you just wanted to stop their whining, maybe it was that you remembered being cold and hungry, and helping another in that situation made the memories of those days a little warmer.

You develop habits of responses to certain situations. When a strange smiles at you on the street it is the habit that diverts your eyes, or spring the smiles to your face. Once a habit is formed it is hard to retrain. But if you do not like how you respond to something that is just what you have to do, for it is not the things that make you respond, but the habits you have formed around those things.

What different does it make what a stranger may think of you if it neither cost you money or pain? To let their opinion sway how you decide to make your choices is to give them the power to decide the path of your life, and no matter which path you walk, no one is going to walk it for you. If you stub your toe they will fell nothing, if you get lost they will not be able to find you, as this is true for you, it is true for others as well, no matter how much you may care for them. Behind our eyes we are all truly along.
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