"There's Only After"

 

Listen...

Understand the words told...

That when a person tells you how your actions have affected them...

It matters...

Your intent matters...

Because the impact that they may have is endless

If your actions do not prove the truth in your words

Then your words are nothing more than continued lies...

Consideration is respect

How another pays attention to that detail is important

Reality is truth...

Own everything that has happened to us

We cannot return to yesterday

There's only after today

Our stories are continued works in progress

It is all these moments of existence collected

A balance of feelings and emotions

And the power within the presence we give it

Words, just like action have consequences

And so does silence when it is used like a weapon of guilt

Everyone makes mistakes in life

That does not mean that they have to pay for them for the rest of their lives

Sometimes good people make bad choices...

It doesn't mean that they are all bad, it means they are human...

The understanding comes when they have learned...

Correcting the place and time when they overstepped

By apologizing, acknowledging the lies, and claiming the blame

It reminds us of the realization that is hard to believe

That some changes are painful, yet necessary...

Nothing grows well within chaos

We must do our best within our ability to preserve the calm

Peace does not mean that you have to surrender yourself to a place with no noise of hard work

It means to be in the mindset of those things that will restore the calmness within our being

Because we are not the darkness endured and inflicted upon us...

We are the light that refused to surrender.

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