"FLOOD OF FORGIVENESS"
  I was a member of a touring performing group. We practiced, traveled, and performed, 7 days a week for 6 months strait. Sometimes it was really tough. There was never privacy, and you got to see the best and worst of everyone every single day. By the end of the season I was tired, and had developed certain strong dislikes of certain people, and some had direct hostility with and they with me.

The idea of being "professional" made truce possible in these situations, but it was not fun to see daily, and nightly and every moment in between people you could not bear. Well, to make a long story short, on the way to the final performance at the end of the season, I was looking at everyone on the bus ride to the performance and suddenly I started crying uncontrollably. I felt waves of love and appreciation going through me for everyone. All of the work they had done, their dedication, their skills, all that we had been through together, and how beautiful each and every one really was.

Suddenly it was as if they were all my best friends. I started thanking everyone for everything, they thought I was nuts but I didn't care. This experience changed me because I knew from then on that some how the means justify the end. I could see that people really can forgive each other and find real love, I consider it to be a miracle.

I know that there is no reason to be unhappy with anyone, no matter how deep it got, there is a way out. Most of those guys I have never seen again, but it makes me happy that when I look back, it really is with happiness and fondness. I remember that it was painful too but somehow the pain is gone.

B.O. - United States

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