Humbled By Life Revisited

Sometimes you don't even know what's going to happen next, life shows up reminding us "yes, by God, you are alive!" Sometimes it is death that awakens us, someone we know & love gone~we know we will never be the same again. Whenever possible, just think and remember that no matter how stressful this life, no matter how content or perhaps miserable we may fee;, life is now and it is short. We are but this grain of sand, a speck of dust a microscopic fragment in the heart of the great universe, and we have purpose.
 Maybe you don't know it or you just don't see it yet, but it is there.
 Often we  carry ourselves about each day thinking that we have got it made, we have done it all or we simply are all that!  Heed my warning to you now; if you think you are "all that" then you definitely are not all that. So be aware as an entitled attitude can often follow some very hard life-lessons, and be further aware even when you are free from the constraints of the mind-some other very hard lessons still follow. 
 When we spit words out boastfully say: "I am running I am the the fastest!"  you will find  fall even faster, hit even harder:  for as soon as one think's  "I am know what I am doing" life throws a curve ball & and how you handle it is up to you. Life is deeper than skin, more beautiful than the prettiest face, more precious than platinum; life is more than all the accomplishments one can tuck in their belt.
 Life is a gift, so give/live it freely and share it with loved ones when ever possible. Better to give your hand, to the old man, then just ignore and look away, as we have all been guilty of. When I first moved here to Seattle I loved to hang out at the Pike Place Market and many is a time I would sit on the corner next to the homeless guy and take a second to look at his face and listen to his story. Greater is the person that says hello, steps out of his comfort zone and looks at someone not to judge but to simply be present and kind. No award to boast about it, no money to contend with- it makes life easier when you give of your heart and begin to understand this. 
 To comprehend the "why's of humanity you can begin by opening your understand why some must do what they will do even as you may not agree at least be open enough to accept our differences.  We are just a chain of friends: all stitched and sewn together threaded by a collective memory of what this life is to us.. Make not a bridge to burn but a bridge to cross, join me in entering a new way of thinking, a way past the selfishness and greed  towards more simple delights and the pleasures found in this short life, in friendships and lovers the places we will see and stories we can share make this life what we are!