Pain changes people. For better or worse, it changes people. Every experience in life is a lesson learned and you grow from that experience. You learn what not to do or what you should do next time. You become stronger in your faith or you lose some of your faith. Pain makes you think, makes you wonder, causes you to make decisions, take actions you might regret. Pain is everything in life and nothing in life. It is inevitable that you will face pain in your life, mental, emotional, spiritual and physical. It can take over you, consume you, and either break you down or make you stronger. Or both. Some say we have control over our destiny. That decisions we make will impact our future. True to some extent, even if I wasn’t a believer in God I would have to disagree. Because as human beings, we are imperfect, we are all ignorant on some level, we continue to mature and grow until the day we die. Therefore how can we be in control of our destiny when we make bad decisions, we make mistakes, and we have no idea what the future holds? What opportunities we will miss and which ones we shouldn’t have taken? How can we determine our destiny when we don’t even know what that destiny is?

Copyright 2014 Christiana Parisien