Why I cry.

The reasons I cry are alot less complex than the reasons I smile.  The simple things.  Those things that are around us everyday, but no one else seems to notice.

• Apathy.  This is the biggest fault of human nature that has ever been.  This is why children starve to death each day.   Why women are beaten and neighbors turn their heads.  Why wars are fought but never won.  Why a child's smile disappears and their heart hardens when they learn that terrible truth in life.  No one cares.  But I believe we shape the world in which we live.  And I challenge each and every person to feed the children, help the women, and smile at that forgotten child being pulled along the street by hurried parents who dont have a smile of their own for such a precious being.
• Impatience.  I suffer from this one as well.  But I cant help but cry when I think of all the wonderful things this world has passed up because someone didnt have the patience to speak with a child, or listen to the elderly.  In our battle to stay on top of things, we never learn how to build the stairway to get there.. We only hop up and down, hoping that next time, maybe we'll reach a tiny bit further.
• Rejection.  I have no big humanitarian explanation for this.. Only that as much as I want to be my own person.. I often find myself completely devastated by the smallest hint of rejection.  A fault of mine, I suppose.
• Betrayal.  No one really understands the impact that betrayal has on the life of one who undergoes such a thing.  To abuse trust is to steal faith.  And to me that is the darkest of sins.