The girl sat in her overly large coat with her head hung low, and her heart heavy. Her face straight, but her soul sobbing deep inside... "how?" is what her head whispered in disbelief. It was the sinking feeling she had felt before. Her soul was punching her gut screaming "How stupid you are girl!!! How dare you call yourself worth a cent!! You're a disgrace, a joke, an embarrasment to those you know." She looked out at the dark night and took the blows of every punch and believed every word that was screamed in her head... Until a wise man came along to fix her thoughts, to change her perspective...
"I am not good! look at what has happened!" she yelled at the calm concerned face..
Softly the wise man said "You are good, dont say that"
Frusterated and unable to accept his words she challenged his statement....
"How!? How am i a good person!"
" What makes you good is not in what you have done, it's in what you do after..."
Refusing to accept this she quickly challenged again, " No if i were good i would not have done anything in the first place!!
Glowing, soft, brown eyes looked into her tear filled ones... He put out his hand to hold her face and whispered..." Good people make mistakes i know this because you have, yet, you are still a good soul, if you were not a good person, you would not be here crying.... you would not feel this way... if you were a bad person..."
She grew silent from the words whispered... he was right... She replayed all he had said...
She closed her eyes and soaked in the statement, the pure truth of the matter...
Minutes melted into the night, then...
The words "thank you" brushed off her lips...
That was exactly what she needed to hear...
Good people make mistakes too, in fact it is after the mistake where they show how good they truly are... it is in what they do after the fault that defines them, a "good" or "bad" person...
"Its not about your scars, its all about your heart."
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