A person can make or break your career. Well, usually your own effort makes a pretty big difference, but basically your employment is in someone else's hands unless you're your own boss. Just as easily can one person determine anything else, one example of which is doctors. In some cases a doctor decides whether you will live with one leg or two, a disease or no disease, pain or no pain. When a person is troubled, he or she might choose to take something that belongs to someone else. They might burn down your house or steal your wallet or break your marriage. You can walk calmly along the street and get beaten, just because somebody wanted to do so. Simple but cruel.
We have power. It sounds nice when you say that aloud. Makes you feel strong and like you make a difference. However, that is one of the scariest facts about human beings. We can affect others' emotions even permanently. We can damage something inside someone else as easily as breathing. One look that didn't reach the one in need of help, one bad word that has the same effect as a stake through the heart, one act that could have been left undone. Tears are not so hard to lure out of someone's eyes when you know where to pull.
We are the most powerful weapon against each other. We are capable of hurting, destroying and humiliating. The only question remaining is: can we make choices that we can live with? We have the opportunity to acknowledge the power we hold and to use it right. We have what it takes to turn from a villain to the good guy and fix what is broken. We can choose to use our strength to do good. It is a battle that you have to win, a challenge you can't avoid accepting.
At the end of the day, it only comes to this. Can you live with who you are? Can you stand to look into your own eyes?
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