It's ironic to me that this is my second blog about a tv show on MTV (remember my love for The Buried Life). I didn't grow up with MTV.....it wasn't one of the 4 channels we had in my house the entire time I lived there. I don't really watch too many music videos of any kind. And some of the shows on there just look plain dumb to me. (i.e. 16 and Pregnant...don't get me started!)
Anyway, this show titled "If You Really Knew Me" is about a program called "Challenge Day" that goes into high schools across America. They basically gather up the student bodies of these schools in a gym. They have these kids go through several different activities, all to try and break down the clicks and prejudices and different groups that exist in high schools (and in life!) everywhere.
One of the exercises has them sit in a small group and complete the following sentence, "If you really knew me, you'd know _____________." The things that people share are amazing--their pain and their struggles seem unbearable for high school kids. People who have no friends, whose parents don't support them, who have lost loved ones, who are homeless, who feel guilty for friends who have died. And no one in the school knew.
This is true of everyone we encounter in our lives. Everyone has problems and struggles and gone through hard times, but they keep these things hidden. People put smiles on their faces, act as though everything in their lives are normal, and inside they are a wreck. We never really know what someone is going through. We never know how our negative words or actions can impact someone, or to be the final straw that breaks the camel's back.
In the same way, we never know how a kind word, a hello, or a simple smile might be something that could change someone's day, or even their life. Life is hard. If we can do something to make it just a little bit easier, even just for one person, shouldn't we try?
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