Don't Quit With The First Prick Of The Thorn

In business relationships, in personal relationships, face it, it isn't always easy. We need to take our time, grow and learn about others. They need to learn about us. It does indeed take time. I see with our microwave mentalities, of instant gratification, sound bites, summarizing depth with a short one sentence all encompassing understanding, that this view of another's world falls far short of true understanding. People become very thin skinned with each other. The response back to them is like walking on egg shells, being tepid in our communication, rather than being bold, being vulnerable, and flat out just being ourselves. We need to be more thick skinned. We need more patience, kindness, and love. Do we often need to polish ourselves up a bit, stop being so rough around the edges with another? Sure. But too often in both those business and personal relationships we find it much easier to run away then expose the world to our real selves and just let things lie where they may for another's acceptance of us or rejection. Their response to who we are is out of our control and we can't please all people or have our love returned in equal or greater doses. I would encourage both sides however to think along the lines

Don't Quit With The First Prick of the Thorn.

We are constantly learning along life's journey. Touching the hot stove and learning not to do that again. Learning to drink water that is at liquid temperature and not frozen to quench your thirst. Always lessons for us. With people it is all about NOT QUITTING on them. Keeping them in your life and SEEING WHERE IT WILL GO. Persistence is so vastly underestimated as a good character trait, particularly in relationships, till you finally have figured out who the other person is. None of us are perfect and those you do keep in your life both business and personal, you have to learn to accept that which is not what you expected.

Great reward comes from great risk.

To have the very best in your life, you have to love at the very highest levels.

Reaching up the stem and encountering a thorn or two of pain along the way allows you to find the very beauty of the rose at the top and draw it toward you to smell all its fragrant beauty. It is well worth the prick of the thorns. ALWAYS!!