When we THINK we know everything, we develop expectations, and when we develop expectations, we stop listening; we stop caring, we become ignorant, and with that, RESPECT STOPS. We stop growth and without growth, life stops. When life stops, negative energy is created and depression takes over. Depression is the heaviest weight to carry. We start to hurt others and ourselves. Sometimes we THINK we are doing everything right, until we learn that we are wrong. We cannot always be aware of what and who is wrong and what and who is right. The Heart does. We have to learn to LISTEN so we can learn to KNOW which allows us to FEEL. Feelings teaches us to understand. We all make choices and sometimes without knowing it, we hurt others and ourselves. Is that a reason for us to stop growing or to stop ourselves from being happy? No! It is not a reason for us to give up. We have to LEARN to listen correctly and RESPECT each other’s feelings so we can learn to create solutions. We need to acknowledge that, YES WE CAN hurt others and YES WE CAN be hurt. We have to learn to adjust and admit our mistakes so that WE can learn the true value of our lives. With this knowledge we can move forward, grow, and learn what it means to be HUMAN. Life comes with emotions of anger, pain, stress, pressure, grief, love, broken hearts, disappointments, doubts, fears, joy, dreams, passions, success, happiness, temptations, desire, envy, jealousy, greed, hunger, pride, lust, bullying, gluttony, and more. “It’s OK. I choose to have a choice. I DO have a choice. I choose to respond with kindness. I CHOOSE TO LEARN. I CHOOSE TO GROW. I CHOOSE TO FACE CHANGE.”