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the nicest people.

do you ever wonder why it was always the nicest people that hurt you? how it was always the nicest people with the best intentions that stood firmly in your way? blocking your dreams. denying your requests. even after you had filled the forms and performed the requisite supplication? they were always putting others ahead. telling you they wished for better but just couldn’t; because they wouldn’t. and both of you knew.

it was always the nicest men and women (God-fearing, gentle parents, the kind you’d want as neighbors) who ended up treating you like a threat, an aberration, requiring the corrective hand. going out of their way to make an example of you, instead of quietly offering you the benefit of the doubt or constructive reframe. they needed to demonstrate the integrity of the system they served. making sure to document the case and protect others from the harm you posed, to prevent cheating; that you might never be in danger of receiving more than your due.

you felt that. and it was also not allowed to make them the enemy. you had to believe alongside them that the enemy was you. they always said the beatings would continue until morale improved. and they got away with it. fair or not. they didn’t have to change. you did. you had a lesson to learn where they had a lesson to deliver.

and that’s because it was God asking them to. the universe entrusted delivery of this lifegiving curriculum to the nicest people in the world for a reason.

you’ll notice, too, that not everyone needed to be shown the Source. not everyone needs the truth. but let me give it to you here for free; hard-won, and now i’m giving it away: everything you ever wanted that’s been denied you was never going to come from them. what’s yours is yours and it comes from God, flowing through what’s around you or found deep within. that’s it. so bless them and thank them for being so nice. because they were always telling you the truth.