What if you did know?

What if you did know more about a person- would you look at him or her different?

I always say that if you speak long enough to somebody and get to know them you will understand a little more why they may react the way they do or how they shaped and formed in their philosophies or outlook on others.

The thing is most people do not open up right away and most people do not like to talk about the dark times in their life.
Most of us are formed from early childhood experiences and by tragedies that may have occurred in our life.

Let's say you knew that the man that you argue with all the time loss a son at a early age, maybe in a tragic fire or that woman that seems cold loss a baby due to a incurable disease.
Or that person who is always quiet and keeps to them selves because their mother was murdered.

That older man that he see limping around that you dismiss as just a old man..did you know that he fought in Vietnam when he was 19 and jumped out of helicopters in the dark of night to scout the area and that is why he limps.

These are all real life events that I know happened in people's life's and yes it did change them.

The thing is you would never know this about any of them, yet you may judge them and maybe you just decided that they are not nice people or just old and washed up for whatever reason.

Try not to judge, understand that we all have a cross that we carry.

We all are working our way through something.

Take the time to talk and to understand or at least give people the benefit of the doubt.