Need to define difficult people after receiving an email on the last post.
Our lives are a journey and along the way all different kinds of people intersect our journey. At those points of convergence some simply pass through, while others join us on the journey. Some walk for a short period of time and others will walk with us to the end. This aspect of the journey makes it interesting.
What types of people are allowed to join your journey? It is easy to let those that we like join us, but occasionally we are confronted with people that we find difficult. Life never seems easy around them. It is easy to hold this type of person at arms length or even reject them as too difficult and not worth the effort.
A few years ago I had an epiphany: I am someone else's difficult person.
I now realize that when I perceive someone as difficult there is something in me that needs to change or be adjusted. People who make it their mission to be difficult don't hang around and quickly move on. There are those where they move from being difficult to being agents of change. Those people are to be valued as they drive necessary change in our lives.
