Our circumstances vary: genetic qualities, talents and challenges; the degree and manner of love and nurture, and abuse and loss, we have experienced; exposure to nutrition and fitness, illness and danger; educational opportunities and the level of support in taking those opportunities.
Luck,
and its resulting benefits and travails - its often great travails -
vary.
Responses
to travails vary.
Responses
to grace (or, if you prefer, good luck) vary.
Personalities
vary.
Beliefs
and faiths vary.
Perspectives,
values and judgments vary.
Goals,
strategies and styles vary.
Patience,
focus, motivation and perseverance vary.
What
others expect of us, and what we have come to expect of ourselves, vary.
But
there is one constant: we make choices which, in the moment, by our unique,
mostly unconscious and instantaneous alchemy, are the best we can see to make. We make the best selfish choices we can see, including whether, when, and how to serve.
We
are unique and gifted, blessed and burdened.
But so is each other person.
Let
us be patient with each other, while expecting responsibility and not rewarding
its lack.
Let
us set aside our judgments enough to accept, more and more, our differences and
treat each other with love.
