How People Overcome Obstacles

There are three people that stand out to me if not a few more with regards to what they have triumphed during hard times. One was a person named Rick, I have kept in contact with him and was raised with him. His father owned a large million dollar business called Empire Pipeline. Unfortunately, at a very young age Rick, his mother and sister were all shoved into a small apartment when his father decided to have and affair with his secretary. Rick went through a very hard time and then when things recently all went down Rick went nearly went bankrupt. Yet he stayed within his sister he rendered his faith and then as of just a few months ago he is working within a hospital as a spokesman coupled with getting recently married to a Haitian lady. Ricki is doing very good I spoke to him just one month ago.

Kevin, he came back home from Afghanistan and he hit the bottle and very harshly. To the point that one friend of mine and myself found him in bed going through what is called a psychosis. Kevin spent six months within a psychiatric ward. However after being diagnosed. He lived at the top of an old building and he really had no close. My friend Jim and myself, bought him some clothes rented him an apartment and as well monitored him for a while and then by way of my friend Jim, whom had good contacts federally - Kevin ended up going to Korea to teach English and came back and restarted his life and now works within customs.

I recall when I was living within New York City there was a man that looked like he was a bum and I just was leaving out of the gym and at the subway entrance this person was beating on a Japanese man. I went over and broke it up and then I could see that the person was a Vietnam Vet. So I took him away from the situation of the fighting and we talked and I asked him a few questions that only he would perhaps understand. At the time ironically, he was homeless and I had a good friend by the name of Orlando. I called Orlando and I am not sure what happened to the man but I do know that Orlando promised that he would take care of it. The next day Orlando indicated that he as well was put into proper care and that he would keep an eye on it and arrange by way of what I believe is called Veteran’s affairs six months later he was sober and was back slowly on his way to at least being an able citizen.

With each and every obstacle that we all see there we really never know what the case is for that person. But when we take the measure and look beyond ourselves there is that certain good will that is a feel good. I will find the pictures of two of these people as I have them and it's one thing to look down at someone and it's another to look beyond that and understand that there are a variety of reasons why there are people that are on the streets. Certainly so, however so often we cast an eye and look the other way. Within my family we have contributed to the less fortunate that suffer from Cancer within one of three hospitals’ here. My desire believe it or not is to build an offshoot building that is tied in with the medical system here. I might fail, I might not. However the merit is within doing. One thought of good will goes a long distance within the economic times that we face as well other areas that we face within these times but for every given situation with the assistance or that small deed that we all can do it creates such a large different to those that are less fortunate.
Perhaps it's all within our perspectives of how we think as some cast a blind eye where there are others that do take that time and do something that truly is of value and I am certain that I am not the only one that has done things as such. As well, I have had my own challenges, with family and as well to be very frank with myself with regards to my knees yet as the old saying goes - where there is a will there is a way.

As if you think life has done you in - it has. If you think that life has much to offer - there is one out there just waiting for so many people that during these times find it hard to just make ends meat. I look at the brighter side of things yet as well I do live my own life and so often in what I have found by way of experience. One really comes to render the best of themselves when they are compassionate to not only others but as well while being compassionate to themselves. To this day I keep in contact with Rick, Kevin, my good friend Jim.