Oprah ends each edition of her 'O Magazine' with the last-page article entitled "What I know for Sure". Reading the last issue, it made me think about what I know for sure (or what I THINK I know for sure).
So Far, I have learned that:
1- I believe in LOVE. I just haven’t really experienced it yet.
2- Power and Beauty are the constructs around which everything is based.
3- Bullshit, no matter how pretty it’s packaged, no matter how many polysyllabic words surround it, no matter how many people tout it as dogma, no matter how it has withstood the test of time, is still- at its core- BULLSHIT!
4- Sooner or later, everyone-EVERYONE- will disappoint you at some point and on some level. And there will come a time when you will also disappoint yourself
5- YOU have the power to dictate the way you are going to be treated.
6- If you surround yourself with people unlike yourself who have their own talents, aspirations, and vision, YOU grow more.
7- Skin color will ALWAYS matter- even to those who lecture that it shouldn’t.
8- Even those that should know better, don’t always know better.
9- Ms. Mitchell was right; you don’t know what u got ‘til its gone.
10-The MOST important lessons you can teach a child are that they are BEAUTIFUL and that they MATTER!!!
11-People show you EXACTLY WHO THEY ARE within the first 5 minutes of you meeting them.
12-There are always THREE sides to any story.
What do YOU know for sure?
3 comments:
I agree with most of the things you know...most of all number 4, other's will definately disappoint you, and you will dissappiont others and your self. But number 7 is certainly not true for me...i don't care about skin color, a friend is a friend and that is all that matter's, we are all people,no matter what the outside looks like.
1. I have learned that when you least expect it, expect it.
2. I have learned that at 42...I AM WAITING TO EXHALE (thanks "derick").
3. I have finally learn that people come in your life for a season. Sometimes I make them leave, sometimes they leave on their own, sometimes God is ready for them for His own.
4. I have learned that 9 times out of 10 man will let you down, but Jesus is committed.
5. I have learned that there is good in all people, all people.
wow Mark...I'm going to have to incorporate that one into my life- when you least expect it, expect it. That's so true, because that's when it comes- when you LEAST expect it!
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