Life is easily complicated

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.
The first Son was sent in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in the summer and the youngest in the fall.
When his Sons had all gone and returned, he called them together to describe what they had seen.
The first son said that the tree was bent, twisted and wasn't appealing. The second son said oh! No!!!....It was covered with green buds and looks promising.
The third son disagreed and said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so nice and looked beautiful. It was the most graceful thing I had ever seen he said.
The last Son disagreed with all of them and said it was ripe and dropping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The Man then calmed his sons and explained to them that they were all right because they had each seen but noe season in the tree's life.
He said you cannot judge a tree or a person by only one season and summarily said the essence of who they are can only measured up at the end, when all the seasons are up.
He further added that if you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of spring, the beauty of summer and the fulfillment of your fall.

If you can't be a bridge to connect people, then don't be a wall to separate them. If you can't be a light to brighten people's good deeds then don't be darkness covering their efforts. If you can't be water to help people's crops sprout, then don't be a pest destroying their crops. If you can't be a vaccine to give life, don't be a virus to terminate it. If you can't be a pencil to write anyone's happiness, then try to be a nice eraser to remove their sadness.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Like is likened to an Ocean. Waves will try to knock you down and push you back to where you started from but once you fight through them, the entire Ocean is yours.

No matter how much it hurts now. Someday you will realize your struggles changed your life for better.
We were not given a good or a bad life from the onset of our creation. We were just given life....It is up to us to make it or mar it.

Life's challenges can be altered into opportunities if looked in deeply for the wisdom to be gained from it.

Don’t judge life by one difficult season. Don’t let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.