B27) Adversity

Adversity is one of our greatest gifts. Each of us presented with an endless series of opportunities in which to manage adversity. It’s been my experience most people don’t manage adversity well. It becomes an anchor to most people. An anchor that weighs them down and prevents them from moving forward.

It's the adversity in my life that made me able to get a Master's degree and become an Adjunct faculty member at a couple different colleges. Adversity allowed me to do IT Consulting. Adversity made it possible for me to do volunteer teaching to prison inmates. Had it not been for prison I would not have done these things.

I am so thankful for having gone to prison. I’m not the least bit thankful about leaving my daughter for six years. I have not reconciled this part of my life yet.

From where I am sitting, the only victim in the crime I committed was a three year old little girl. My daughter. The state was not able to produce any "victim" to testify against me at my trial. The state did produce a detective that perjured himself in order to secure my conviction.

The adversity experienced by other I've seen has a profoundly negative effect on them. Especially those in prison. The adversity experienced by others I've seen serves only serves to piss them off. It makes them angry. Resentful. They end up spreading their anger, sharing it with others whether they want that shared or not. It's not a path to Acceptance, Forgiveness and Unconditional Love.