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“Blessed is the one who endures trials, because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.”

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y’all know what’s the craziest part about learning a language? (Yes, I’m trilingual) is when it’s an Asian language.

I’m learning Korean, and Japanese right now. I know Korean more than Japanese at the moment. My parents are aware about this, but they take advantage of it, or the wrong way.

So we’re in the waiting room at the doctors (for my dad, he has kidney stones now.) he’s scrolling on his lovingly, addicting face book. Tell me why, he showed me a picture of Chinese letters. CHINESE LETTERS. It was a photo of Chinese letters with what the letters mean. He literally asked me, “are those correct” like how am I supposed to know ?

I told him, “dad. I don’t know?” And I scoffed. It was so crazy, I just shook my head. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

I'm just going to go on a little stream of thought thing so bear with me here please-

Before I begin explaining myself, I would like to clarify that it is okay if you don't like your trials and hardships. You probably should not automatically enjoy them just because someone told you to- it's your job to decide how to deal with them and not some person who tells you to stop complaining's job. What I'm going to say should not be taken in any way to say that going through a struggle and finding it difficult is not 100% valid and I'm sorry if it seems that way to you.

Ok, starting from the top, many people see no point but suffering in hardships. I agree that it's kinda hard to not do that. I could go on a long ramble about all the things they could do for us and why we have them and so on but it would take too long and I'm also currently feeling a little unmotivated to format that whole thing so it doesn't get extremely confusing. For now, I just want to talk about how without hardships, there is no need for kindness.

Let's talk about kindness. What is it? How does one define an act as kind? Does it have to be of a particular magnitude? Does the person doing the kind action have to know the consequences of their action when doing it? Do the consequences have to be good for all parties involved? For all those questions (excluding the first two), I would say the answer is no. Unfortunately, because I am writing this in stream of thought, that only made it more vague and I probably won't delete it, either. I seem to be having issues with defining kindness, so let's simply hop over to a student's dictionary I happen to have in front of me (because yes, I am feeling like looking it up on the internet would be too much work).

For the kind definition, we'll be wanting the first one. While I was at it, I looked up the nice definition as well because it felt important. Compassion may be important as well so I'll go ahead and

That one hits me hard. Look at what it says- "sympathy for suffering." So ok, I'm really taking hold on this compassion thing and maybe I should've started with it, but kindness is listed as another interpretation of the same definition so it's working out.

Anyway, sympathy for suffering. Where does suffering come from? Hardships, of course. Can we all agree compassion is rad? Now can we all agree that we wouldn't need compassion if nothing was ever hard?

See, if I knew from birth how to tie a square knot, I'd never need someone to teach me. There would be no need for that kindness and compassion so it probably wouldn't ever happen. If we all knew how to tie square knots from birth, there would be no need for anyone to know how to teach someone how to tie one.

Now imagine nobody ever needed any help at all. Wouldn't there be no need for someone to know how to give it, then? If I think about how children learn to be actually kind (rather than just doing kind things as they are told), it usually has to do with them helping someone else's struggle, especially when someone has helped them through one of their own first. This is the scientific method, my dudes. Observe, test, and observe. Or something like that.

Now let's jump over to a slightly different topic. What is the most desirable quality for a friend or companion or whatever kind of person most people look to spend time with? I always hear people saying they want their future romantic partners to be "nice." And what's a nice person without compassion? Not much of a nice person, are they?

Whenever you're having a hard time, it's still a hard time. It's still not fun. It's still fine for you to not think of it as a good thing. But if you're in the middle of a hardship, I think it might be nice to remember that maybe this is happening to help someone else develop compassion. Maybe it's so you can learn about compassion by helping or being helped during your hardship. Maybe you won't even notice anything but the hardship and the suffering it brings, but we don't always notice everything around us and not everyone always takes or even sees every opportunity. I think I already said the thing I wanted to say to close this and now I'm just rambling like I have been the whole time. Uhm then I guess I hope you have a good day and thank you for reading this long rambly thing.

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