Where Do People Like Me Fit?

People, for as long as I can remember, have expressed to me how smart, special, good, strong, and caring I really am. People have also expressed to me they felt I would go far in life and would probably succeed at any thing I set out to do in my life. These things have always been nice for me to hear and I would agree. I am all these things, and so much more. However, sometimes I feel life is just downright frustrating and confusing.

People like me, for whatever reason, seem to have been given a raw deal to work from, learn, and hopefully grow and develop from. The game of life isn’t always easy for us to play. To us it seems there are always trick cards being thrown our way, people trying to steal what is rightfully ours, or people plainly cheating and trying to get over on us. We are not blind and are able to see what’s going on! Despite these upsets in our lives, we continue to fight our way through these obstacles to stay in the game of life. People like me just want a good prosperous life just like the next person. The simple things in life such as a nice and safe place to live, a good job to be economically self-sufficient, to have love, respect, courtesy, and compassion in our lives. People like me want to be freed from needing extra help that we have had to have to assist us in our lives so we could survive and be able to live. We never intended to be on any system for longer than we really needed to be. People like me never wanted to feel stuck.

People like me understand totally that we have to crawl before we can walk. We also understand, quite frankly, we might have made some bad choices in our lives that may have caused some of our heartaches and pain that we have experienced. We still deserve another chance to make whatever it was we did wrong, right!

When it’s all said and done, when we do decide to do something about the things in our lives that we are not happy about, we are sometimes slammed up against a wall. Why? We are doing everything we can to help ourselves. We have started to take some of the advice that had been given to us so many times by others who have seemed to care about us as a person, so what is the problem then? The problem is, some people don’t want people like me to become unstuck, it may make them feel better that they have more than people like me have and they may even feel they are better than people like me.

People like me sometimes feel we are used as other people’s doormats. People like me, are like precious diamonds that most people don’t appreciate until we have moved on to other things in our lives. Well! I am here to tell you people like me change the world. We are the people who spread hope and sunshine into other people’s lives. We are the people who are able to reach a wide range of people of all social statuses. We are the people who make good leaders. People like me are missionaries, teachers, counselors, ministers, and even doctors. People like me are people who will and have gone over and beyond the call of duty, to help and serve,

Or just fill in, because there is a need. So! Where do people like me fit in society? The answer is: We fit anywhere people will allow us to prove ourselves GREAT!

Comments

[Lanai]

This is great info to know.

[Tracy]

I stumbled across this blog and I felt like it was written just for me. I am in a point in my life where I am asking this exact question, "Where do poeple like me fit?". Thank you for being passionate about this topic, and for putting in words exactly how I am feeling.