Conscience

I have seen how unfair life can be. What would you do if you gave everything you had in order to help a stranger in danger only to have them coincidentally leave you drowning some days later? What would you do if you reached out to help someone and that person slapped your hand away and ended
up dying and the people who knew that person begun to blame you for that person’s death? Would you have the heart to forgive someone who you trusted only to have them attempt to kill you by ganging up on you and beating you to near death? I know I would have it rough forgiving such but I know someone who did just that. To date I still ponder over whether I could find someone with the same heart as my friend who died trying to save strangers who later turned on him.

The kind of heart my friend had was inconceivable. He was always there for everyone, ever cheerful, ever sweet, loving and forgiving. If you knew him, you would probably have loved him but the problem is that nobody knew him and nobody tried. Nobody bothered to understand him. A lot of times people accused him falsely and no one ever gave him the opportunity to say his side of the story and because he was gentle in nature, he never complained about the unfair treatment. Everything he said was changed and used against him to make him look guilty and all he did was maintain silence. People questioned his every action and eventually they did away with him. In the end he was left alone, he never got to reveal himself fully to anyone because no matter what he did, people found fault with him and complained about him. Despite all this, he was determined to believe the best of everyone and remained patient with people to the very end.

(sigh) to this day I wonder if there ever will arise someone who would have tried to be fair and listen to both sides of the story before judging. The moral question here is what type of person are you? Are you the kind of person who goes with what everyone says? Are you the kind of person who stands for your own values? Who are you really? Are you the kind of person who would defend the weak or are you one to join those who bully the weak? One last question… are you the kind of person to believe what others tell you or are you one to find out the truth for yourself? At the end of the day, only GOD and you know you.

What I have learned is to find out the truth for myself before drawing conclusions, to not judge no matter what I have heard. To stand up for what I believe in and to cherish those dear to me while I can. To fight for truth and like my friend used to say to never give up. If life gives you lemons make lemonade.