Sunday, June 22, 2014

Conclusion (possibly)

    The key to being pleasant is putting your needs under those of everybody else's.  The trick to this is learning to understand what people really need.  Sometimes it means trusting them to know what they need and leaving responsibility in their hands though other times it might mean telling them no.  What I am trying to say is that we are put on earth with the ability to live however we might desire and when we use this to help others we will not only be pleasant, but a blessing.

    I decided I could go on and on about different specifics areas that I need help in.  Things that I do not do well in regards to being a pleasant person to be around and with.  Yet the point is to realize what is that makes somebody pleasant and I believe it ultimately comes down to choosing to Love people.  This sounds terribly cliche but it is true time and time again.  When we love people we will not end up giving into all of their desires or they won't learn anything but when we truly love by choice and not on conditions we will be pleasant.

    Each situation and person may require their own solution, an unique way to be treated, and that is why when we wrap it all up in true unconditional love I know that it can be done.  The problem only lies within ourselves as imperfect beings that struggle to love.  One last piece of advice I want and can give you is this... Giving people what they want is not how you become truly pleasant, but rather you will become like a temporary high.  When you sincerely take time to intentionally invest into people seeking ways to give them what they need you will be Pleasant.  May God give me the grace to, even for a moment, be pleasant, to be an image bearer of the King of kings, of the one who calls himself "Love".