It's a matter of great courage to begin your day with the newspaper. You never know what gets to you; the horror stories of crimes against women or the victimisation of children who are barely out of infancy. It sets me thinking about the nature of humans - capable of so much violence and also of so much good.
Even before a child is born, there is so much riding on his/her birth - is it a first born? a middle child? a girl? a boy? did they parents really want this child? or was it an accident? how difficult was the mother's pregnancy? And so on. By the time a child comes into this world, he/she has already so much meaning surrounding it. Once born, the child's environment continually influences her and how she reacts to this depends a lot on her genetic make up as well.
What amazes me is that, despite all this, despite childhood's that are out of our control or incidents out of our control or environments that are out of our control, we, at every second of our lives, have the potential to turn things around on their heads.
It might be a moment where you decide to get out of a bad relationship, or a moment where you decide to move out of a house that no longer makes you happy, or maybe you decide to let go of that grudge you were holding on to so tenaciously and let it go forever. It might also be a moment when you choose violence over peace or death over life.
But every second of life has a potential; infinite potential. Whether you choose to act on it or not is immaterial, but the fact is, we have countless moments to do things differently. It might not be easy, but with help, the right kind of help, anything is possible. And that's what amazes me the most - its like living a million lifetimes in one.
Ah! I think ill take a moment to trash the newspaper and read my daily horoscope instead.
