Just Thinking

There seems to be a shift in all of our worlds lately. Getting married, having babies, breaking up, breaking down, feeling the earth move underneath our feet. Sometimes it seems like it is never enough. The effort that we put into certain things, go so unnoticed, so unappreciated. So we start to wonder...what is it all for? I like to call this time, the space between. This time, we just seem to all be experiencing it at once.
I have been doing copious amounts of thinking, sometimes it gets me in trouble and sometimes...just sometimes...things get a little clearer to me. I have been thinking about judgement and forgiveness. I guess I didn't think that we were supposed to judge our friends. I thought being friends meant loving someone, no matter what color their spots are. I also thought we should all forgive. I heard somewhere, "Forgiveness is forgiveness" and this moved me. Shouldn't we just forgive people's mistakes? We are all human...this "stuff" that we are made of is all the same...if you cut us, we all bleed. I think we sometimes forget that we have all made mistakes...and its hard to see that when we are on the receiving end of a mistake. Step back for a moment...remember what it is like to falter...to your faith tested and your humanity questioned. I feel like we are all in this whirlwind of let downs and major upsets. I think we all have rough patches...but its up to us whether or not we dredge through it...or play a game of kickball while we are out in the field...hearts open. Life is what you make of it...we cant get back moments. When Andi and Desi lived here we always said "we are making memories" no matter how horrible we looked, terrified we were, or how miserable we were. Laughter, love forgiveness. We are all human, we are all each other.