Hopefully, you’ll take a step back and think twice about what actions you want to take immediately following times of challenge, controversy, and hate. Hopefully, you know that your character is just that: yours-and that you have the ability to make up your mind, change your mind, commit to believing ideas, and recommit to believing new ideas. Hopefully, you can see the power of being able to exhibit kindness, patience, love, and forgiveness even in the hardest of situations. Because trying circumstances and challenging situations aren’t the creators of character, they are the revealers of character. Shoot, why work hard to fix anything at all when life keeps throwing challenges and controversies at you? Much easier to just yell, fight, gossip, moap, and maybe even quit right? You might feel yourself getting a whole lot less fun, relaxed, and patient, eh? Maybe instead of being caring and kind to others, you might start being short and rude.
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Trying to watch your favorite TV show but the dog ate and destroyed the remote? Went out to eat but there’s a 45 minute delay on the table that you put a reservation on? Got called into your bosses office and got yelled at for poor performance? All-of-a-sudden smiling isn’t so easy. But, for the same reason that it’s so easy to embody those characteristics when circumstances are comfortable and convenient, we also need to remember that those same characteristics can just as easily be lost when things get hard.
It’s in situations like these when being the person you want everybody to see is easy: someone who is smiling, fun, relaxed, patient, hard working, caring, and kind. When everything in the house is working beautifully and you can sit on the couch and watch your favorite TV show without interruption? When you go out to dinner and your table is beautifully set, the service is impeccable, and the food is amazing? When you go to work and you get along with everyone, you feel like you’re producing your best work, and your boss is thrilled? It’s easy to be a good person when everything in life is good. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
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