 You know, one of the things I've learned in life and I'm still learning is that if you if you misunderstand someone's struggle You will misread and misjudge their strength If you don't understand the struggle That's behind a person's strength You will misread the strength and misjudge the person Because you don't understand why they need that strength to cope with what they're going through in life because you don't know What they're going through in life? I've often felt on the receiving end of being misunderstood with the strength I about to have at different times and the tenacity and the focus and the removal of certain voices and people from my life the times when I've been Unreasonable and not open to certain voices and opinions and ideas which I know to people Can look rude and arrogant and proud and opinionated But I was going through a struggle some of you know people in your life or you yourself You have a struggle that you're not able to articulate or nor should you have to tell anyone about but that struggle To overcome an illness or overcome a bereavement or overcome a setback a bankruptcy a tragedy a problem something in your life that has Forced you to find a strength Because of that struggle People that often don't know and sometimes people that do and should know better only see The strength the strength is what's manifested the strength is what's obvious So people judges by the strength that they see and don't like and don't understand But they would if they knew the struggle that's behind that strength So I think I'm appealing to you guys to To think twice to be slow to judge people based on The strength that they have if it's the kind of expression of strength that you don't like or You feel others wouldn't like And ask yourself I wonder what that person's going through. I wonder what their struggle is I wonder what Hand life is dealing them at the moment for them to have to find that kind of strength I've learned and I'm still learning to stop and to be slow to judge and quick to listen to be slow to Make an opinion based on the evident strength someone may have the evident stubbornness the evident Persistence the evident relentlessness the evident anger However, however the strength is Manifested and demonstrated I'm slow to judge because I wonder what is that Guy going through what are that couple going through? What is that young person going through? I don't know about the struggle and Very few people do know about the struggle So Cut some people some slack given the benefit of the doubt and try to be more empathetic towards What possible struggles people could have and then you'll read that in your own life If you put that out towards people People will grant that back to you when you are going through a season of your life where you're really struggling So you have to find a strength to Survive and cope with that struggle others will be kinder to you if you have been kinder to them When it was your turn to be gracious with someone else's turn To struggle and be strong and risk being misunderstood So I think that's a good thing to add to our humanity To be more aware and empathetic to the possibility of this is a huge struggle That's forcing you to find this kind of strength and I understand it and I am you or I was you or one day I will be you so let's give each other a break on all that