This is rather lengthy but my sincere hope is that you take these words to heart. You are wonderful people! BELIEVE v.s. What is the meaning of the word believe? What does it mean to say you believe in someone? What does it mean then when you stop believing? To take the first question, Bing Dictionary gives the definition of the word believe as: 1. accept something as true: to accept that something is true or real 2. accept somebody as truthful: to accept that somebody is telling the truth 3. credit somebody with something: to accept that somebody or something has a particular quality or ability Other similar meanings of the word believe are trust, to have faith in, be certain of, have confidence in, accept as true, rely on. So when you tell someone you believe or believe in them, you would be saying you believe that what they have said is true and that you accept it as real. You are giving the person/s credit with something, if nothing else the value of their words. To change the subject a minute, have you ever heard the song by Journey – Don’t Stop Believing? It is about a boy and a girl leaving, taking a train to anywhere. Wonder what caused them to go in the midnight hour and ride a train which would travel quickly away from where they were? They could be running for any number of reasons. They could just like to ride at the midnight hour. They could feel perhaps that someone/s or no-one believes them or believes in them and they are taking the first train out because it hurts too much to stay. Maybe they believed the words that others directed at them only to find out it was all was just a game and untrue. Maybe they found that the taunting was more than they could take or the unbelief was more than they could take. Yes, perhaps this is not it at all, but suppose it is. So then this suggests unbelief which is my third question above. Suppose you believed in someone or someone’s and felt that you had finally opened yourself up enough only to trust to have that trust shattered? What if it was you? How would you feel? Really think about it? Would it feel good to you to be punished for maybe something that wasn’t even true? Maybe that is why the boy or the girl was leaving. Maybe they felt it didn’t matter what they did or said, that no one believed them anyway so they just decided it would be simpler for them to leave, less pain somehow. Again, we don’t exactly know what the real story was in the song and that brings me to another point, there are lots of facets to a story, like a diamond as there are many facets to a person. There are so many wonderful traits someone has however, until you get to know people you never find out what those traits are. Yes, you wonder what drives people to give up and leave, pull away from people that they felt at one time believed in them or had their world shattered by someone/s with a need for revenge from out of their own pain in their own heart. It is really such a sad thing because everyone is valuable in our own right and we all have things, so many things of ourselves that we could share with each other and yet for reasons known and unknown those opportunities are never allowed to take place. Another thought on believing is that “seeing is not always believing”. You may not see the pain in someone’s eyes from the things that are going on in their life. You may not know that they are sick or their family is sick or they are facing other dire circumstances or loss. We may not know that the man or woman passing you on the street, in the next car, in the aisle next to you in a store is super talented but just needs someone to reach out a hand or a voice to get over a fear of performing in public or the lady running the cash register as you make your purchases is struggling to feed her children and works three jobs and prays every step she takes. We can’t know what drives or halts someone’s drive by looking at them. It takes interest. It takes time. It takes faith and it most certainly involves belief. Can I ask you not to judge a book by it’s cover or form an opinion about someone unless you at least make an effort to know them? Can I ask you to not let yourself to be driven by a lack of belief and skepticism? Can I ask you to consider not giving up on someone if you haven’t really taken the time to understand them? At the very least can I ask you to allow yourself to imagine how it would be if all of the above were you? Take a chance on someone or many someone’s. Be a builder of a life, not a demolisher. Show the world all you have to offer and share and allow others to share and get to know you. Enjoy the Journey-Don’t Stop Believing!
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:28:14 +0000
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