Second chances

Two words that can define who you are. How many you have given, how many have been given to you by people who you have wronged or hurt. It's hard to say if people always deserve another chance. Most of the time they really don't. A cheating spouse, a back stabbing lie, treachery, abuse. Mistakes come in major and minor forms. A forgotten birthday, saying the wrong name, forgetting to do something. Mistakes happen, but it all depends on the severity of the mistake, and if that person deserves a second chance.

I have been given more second chances than I will ever deserve. I have lied, gotten mad over stupid things; I've said things in anger that shouldn't have been brought up. Everyone does it at one time or another. Too bad I've done it in a period of less than a year. No one is truly a bad person. The choices they make along their road of life help shape who they are, but they don't define who that person truly is. It's hard to get threw obstacles, but everyone has too. It's the people who don't get threw them that have the real problem. They become held back and then they can't move forward.

Sometimes it's too hard to move forward when all you want to do is stay put or go back. It's hard to get over things that affect us in an enormous way. The death of a loved one, a failed relationship that can never be fixed. People always try to fix things that have happened in the past, but that is always a problem because they are in the past. You can't live for something in the past. You have to live in the present, and for the future. You can't simply live like you always have. You have to move forward, and grow. Change is nature, emotions hold it back.