The Human Condition

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I was born under a lucky star, okay, not really. But I was a very lucky girl, because I had parents that loved me, grandparents that lived nearby, and a very large extended family. In responding to the challenge about the human condition, I believe love shaped my life in a big way.

I was the first born, which has many advantages and disadvantages, so I had the laser-focused love of my parents all to myself for 2 years. All my grandparents were very loving, especially my paternal grandmother, Grandma Barbee. Grandma Barbee and I were very close, and she always had my back.

So since love and kindness and security were such a big part of my first five formative years, I believed that humans were trustworthy, kind and wonderful. I always expected people would act like I did in a similar situation. Of course, I soon discovered that isn’t always the case.

I guess I will never fully understand the human condition. I have worked at a job for 25 years that puts me in touch with people during some of the worst times of their lives. Sometimes I can understand what drove them to act as they did, but sometimes I just can’t. There is no explanation my mind can comprehend that could justify some things. But I also see resilience, hope and a desire to change, and I see all too well how people have been treated so badly that they have no expectations that their lives could ever be good. That is heartbreaking.

Jim’s Challenge: Respond to this Friday Faithfuls challenge by writing anything about the human condition, or share some of your experiences, emotions, challenges, and questions that defined you, or examine how love shaped your life, discussing the complexities of relationships, family bonds, friendship, and what it means to care for others, or write about overcoming adversity, the challenges people face, resilience, hope, and the human spirit’s capacity for endurance, or discuss feelings of isolation, loneliness, the desire for community, and what it means to belong, or reflect on your relationship with the natural world, environmental concerns, and the impact of nature on our lives, or you can go with anything else that you think would fit. 

The Human Condition
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Published by lisaapaul

I’m a paralegal, a widow, mother and grandmother.

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11 thoughts on “The Human Condition”

  1. I loved you post, Lisa and being raised by the right people gives you a leg up on those that are less fortunate than you are. Life is like a box of chocolates, and you don’t know what you are getting till you bite into one and nobody ever promised that it would be a rose garden, as life can be tough and then you die.

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  4. I think, being one of those people who have done things that may or may not ever make sense to anyone else- that I did not truly understand, until my own actions became those of my abusers (for lack of a better word this early in the morning)- just how unbelievably far I had strayed. I think this might be of use to you in your dealings with other such individuals.

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    1. You are so right, I think this will be helpful. People smarter than I am have done a lot of research on unhealthy relationships and have found that children or people who are exposed to unhealthy relationships/abusive relationships for an extended period of time will adopt that behavior. That’s a fact, and the adopter cannot help that. But I mean, I suppose you can even justify something as awful as murder. If we are pushed into a corner, abused over and over again, then we are going to strike out.

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