We are all tainted.

Tainted with life, love and experiences. None of us are pure. Everything in life affects us, even the littlest things will have some sort of effect on us. I am tainted. Dating and relationships have tainted me. I am a skeptic and a pessimist when it comes to love. I am very careful about the people I trust or the chances I give. All because, when I was a little younger and a lot more naive, I trusted too soon and fell too hard and got hurt too fast. So I am tainted.

I am tainted with the experiences of life. Divorced parents, deceased loved ones, seeing pain and suffering in the dying and the living; These are hard experiences to deal with. They're not easy things to experience and some how, we learn to face them with a brave front. So we are all tainted.

It is sad, really. Because life and love are such beautiful things to experience. There are so many miracles that still happen that people don't appreciate as much. Waking up in the morning, the birth of a child, a couple celebrating their 50th anniversary, getting home safe at the end of the day to a loving family. These are all little things we forget to appreciate. Why? Because we are tainted.

We always want more than we have, more than we should be asking for. We forget that miracles are not just big things like surviving cancer or a disaster, or finding a cure for a disease. Miracles are every little happy thing that happens in your life. We take things for granted. Why? Because, we are all... tainted.