​Good morning sunshine.   Love ya.
I am glad that I have the ability to learn and grow. Every single day I wake up, somewhere in my life, I see or hear something that actually sinks in and changes me just a little bit. To be stuck in a life without growth is a horrible destiny for anyone.
  When I was younger, I was much more apt to have the same thoughts, feelings, and understandings as my parents and siblings, and those whom I was constantly around. As I continue to move forward in life, many of my beliefs have changed considerably.
  Life experience, seems to be for me the best teacher. I learn from my failures, of which I have many, and from my victories, which are far and few between. My views on life, religion, and politics, once dominated by my upbringing and nurture, have now become the sum of my own experiences, and the experience, of some of you around me.
    Many times I have believed things just because that it what I had been taught to be right and true, only to find out later in life that they were actually wrong and false. It can be the hardest thing at first, to admit your entire life is based on the beliefs, (whether right or wrong), of someone else. Parents, friends, and other affluent people for the most part.
    It takes a lifetime to find yourself. Your own inner self. The part of you formed by nature itself, not the part formed by everything around you. Truth become lies, and lies becomes truth.
   The world turning upside down all around you. Your once steadfast beliefs, now understood in your heart to be wrong, or far from what in your soul you believed your entire life to be true.  
   As I sit writing this, I wonder about life in general, and what do I find to be true today, that  I may have never realized before.
     We all bleed red. There is no one individual any better or more entitled than anyone else. We are all people with hearts and souls, with families and friends. Not a single one of us is perfect. But somehow in life, we have been taught that we are better than others. We are not. We all have horridness, and we all have goodness.
   Many years ago, my brother inlaw shot and killed my younger sister, leaving five children. I hated him for that. What a horrible monster he must have been. The fact is, he was a very loving and giving man. But something inside him took him down what I consider was a bad path. Today I forgive him. Whatever brought him to that point, I have no idea, and I choose to no longer judge him.
   A lot of people are racists. Is that any different? Again, we all bleed red. We all suffer the same injustice of having to temporarily live on earth. People say actions speak louder than words. That is because we want to see the goodness. That is because we judge. Our hearts, the quiet part of every human being, talk loudest, but cannot be seen by the naked eye.
     I write about my love and feelings. But putting what is in my heart on paper, is easier than putting it into action. I can say I love you all I want, but if it is not really in my heart, it is then just hot air. Our hearts. It is all about our hearts. Can we love and hate at the same time, or does that create a dead emotion.
   Today I learned that none of us are perfect. But we are all equal. Whether you are the pope, or a politician, the richest or the poorest, the most honest or the most deceitful, whether you are black white brown red or yellow, male or female, whichever belief or religion, we all bleed red.
     Unconditional love for each other should be the only desire on the face of the earth. Everything else is pure selfishness  We all, every human on this earth, bleed red, and deserve love.
   Loving others is our only job on earth, judging them is God's!