People I Respect

I'm going to attempt here to acknowledge some people I really respect, without naming names. I don't want to embarrass anybody. But thinking of these people is inspiring to me. I felt that they deserved some public (but anonymous) acknowledgement. The things I am facing seem insignificant when I think of all they have accomplished and overcome.

I respect someone who has had a hard life, but for all of that life this person has tried to help other people whenever possible. This person has helped people out of all kinds of major, major jams on many occasions. Usually this help has come with no reward. This person has saved lives, in a figurative and literal sense.

I respect someone who survived two broken marriages and all kinds of pain, abandonment and hurt. But she did her best to raise her kids and she has never lost her faith or hope for others.

I respect someone who sets a goal and works to achieve it. This person is never discouraged or beaten down by life. This person embodies positivity.

I respect someone whom we all lost faith in and only expected the worst from. This person went on to become an amazing mother and a source of stability and strength in her family, a person whose faith is unshakable. She proves that nothing is impossible, that people can change for the better.

I respect someone who was willing to uproot her whole life to help her mom get to a better place. Completely unselfish, this person lives her life for others.

I respect someone who loves her kids enough to raise them right and give them a good moral background and education. This person is now trying to help other kids who can't help themselves.

I respect anybody who masters another language!

I respect someone who's doing an important job away from family and friends.

I respect someone who is fighting to save a marriage.

I respect anyone who beats their addictions, even if it takes most of their lives.

I respect someone I don't know personally who made it out of the darkness and got back to doing what he was meant to do.

I respect someone who's in an unhappy situation, one he might be wise to walk away from, but who stays, not for his benefit, but for someone else. He is making a better life for someone else who may not ever appreciate it.

I respect someone who kept on going as long as he could and didn't let his illness stop him from doing what he wanted. He lived even as he was dying.

I respect someone who took a seemingly unsalvageable situation with the seemingly worst possible person and created a great and loving family out of it.

I respect someone with integrity, someone who is content with the current situation but believes something better will come along.

I respect those who are loyal.

I respect someone who keeps trying.

I respect all of these and more, and I hope to be as strong as them someday.