Compassion...

This week has been a strong week. I have logged many hours in the gym and I have recorded my food and stayed consistent with it all. I feel strong. Strong is a good place to be! I am going into June with a feeling of accomplishment and tremendous strength. The scale is cooperating a little, but not like it should and that is okay right now. I am making good choices and I know if I continue to make good choices good things will come.

Anybody that knows me knows that I am random – so you can appreciate this. One day while I was at the gym I had Oprah on the t.v. I couldn’t hear the t.v. because I was rockin’ out to my tunes but I could see the images. From what I gathered her designer for years (whom I met a few years back – cool guy) was leaving. I guess he really has no choice because Oprah’s show is ending, but like I said I couldn’t hear the show so I really don’t know, but it is neither here nor there. WOW, I just went off on that – let me regroup and get back to my point (yeah, there was a point).

They were showing clips of Nate through his years on the show. For those of you that don’t know Nate lost his partner in the Tsunami of 2004 and his life understandably so was forever changed. While watching these clips I saw him hugging some victims from Hurricane Katrina and even though I didn’t know why he was there, and I couldn’t hear the words being exchanged I saw the raw emotions, I saw the action. The love and compassion exchanged was intense. It wasn’t just a friendly pat on the back it was a hug you with every ounce of love I have - and it just really touched me. It made me think.

All too often we are rushing through our lives and we as a society are conditioned to not care about people too much and especially not strangers. I consider myself pretty compassionate, however, I fall into this rut as well. I hope to work on this and truly try to have more compassion for mankind.

I am very blessed with a great group of people around me. I have some of the best friends a girl could ever ask for and just recently I have met (and still getting to know) some of the most amazing group of ladies. I am proud to call each of them my friends and further more I am overwhelmed with gratitude for being chosen for them to be a part of MY life. I don’t know what I did to deserve such greatness around me! Not really sure where this post was going, but just a reminder to be gentle with your judgments – you don’t know where the person next you has been, but you may just be able to make a difference of where they are going.

To receive great things, we must give great things! I believe that deeply!