Something to live by

***Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were MEANT to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach a lesson, or to help you figure out who YOU ARE or who u want to BECOME. U never know who these people may be but when u lock eyes with them, u know at that MOMENT they will affect your life in some profound way. Sometimes things happen to u that may seem horrible, painful, and unfair at first, but in REFLECTION you find that without overcoming those obsticles u would have never REALIZED your potential, strength, will power, or heart. EVERYTHING happens 4 a reason, NOTHING happens by chance. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to TEST the limits of your SOUL. Without these small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable BUT dull and utterly pointless. The people u meet who affect your life and the success and downfalls u experience help to create who u r and who u become. EVEN the bad experiences can be learned from. IN FACT they are probably the most IMPORTANT ones. If someone hurts u, betrays you, or breaks your heart, FORGIVE them, for they have helped u learn about TRUST and the importance of being CAUTIOUS with your open heart. If someone LOVES u, love them back UNCONDITIONALLY, not only because they love u, but because in a way, they are TEACHING u to love and how to OPEN your heart and eyes to things. Let yourself fall in love.I've found that sometimes the road doesn't take you where you want to go, but you end up in places you'd never want to leave, with people you'd never dream of living without***