One of the things that never ceases to fascinate me are the cycles people go through over and over. All of our lives have a rhythm, life goes up, and it goes down. Our relationships have cycles, our jobs have cycles, our moods have cycles.

When we are in an up cycle, life is good, everything is great, and it is easy to keep thinking positive. Then we reach the top of the peak, and things slowly start sliding downhill. People always seem to be surprised when this happens, and the fact that they are surprised always surprises me.

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We hear people say “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” all the time. But there are times in life when it is broken, what then?

If your child gets in serious trouble every time you leave them alone, are you still leaving them alone?

If your lover keeps cheating on you, do you keep forgiving them?

If someone always borrows money and never pays it back, are you still giving them money?

If there is someone that gets on your nerves every time you are around them, are you still hanging out with them?

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A friend of mine responded to my post Learning How To Let Go... though his writing was discussing conflict of a global nature rather than personal, he did make a strong point.

I hope you will take a few moments to read his thoughts, acting globally and acting locally all spring from the same seed.olence: a guest post by Ron Rink

As an advocate of Peace and as one who has "Search for Peace" at the
top of his "To-Do" list, I'd like to share some thoughts on the
subject of non-violence....

As far as all the wars around the world today, we must remember that
the violence must end before anything else can happen. We can all
think nice thoughts about right and wrong, who acted first, who acted
worst. We can argue about politics - national, international,
geopolitical, corporate.... However ....

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