17 Extraordinary Human CapacitiesWritten by Steve Brunkhorst
The following article may be reprinted on websites or in opt-in only ezines and newsletters provided it is unchanged, and author's copyright, resource information, and website links in live hyperlinked format are included. _______________________17 Extraordinary Human Capacities © 2004 By Steve Brunkhorst http://AchieveEzine.com People have a tremendous capacity for outstanding achievement. There are also many extraordinary capacities that allow them to become high achievers. Here are seventeen extraordinary capacities that make human beings remarkable. When we recognize and use these capacities, quality of our lives can become more joyful than ever before. Helping someone in their time of tragedy or need shows capacity for human goodness. Listening closely to another's words and experience shows capacity for soulful communication. Understanding pain, sorrow, or loss of another person shows capacity for empathy. Believing best about others, and offering time, support, and friendship shows capacity for trust. Apologizing for a past mistake shows capacity for strong character and trustworthiness. Forgiving errors of a fellow human being shows capacity to receive forgiveness. Supporting truth, even when it is unpopular, shows capacity for honesty and integrity. Compromising when it is best for welfare of others shows capacity for teamwork.
| | The Difference A Boy Can MakeWritten by Staci Stallings
Since time my son looked at me just after he had pulled up to small, lopsided, dangerous end table I was sitting next to and then growled at me because I told him “No,” I’ve know that boys are different. I saw it in his face. I heard it in his growl, “Leave me alone, Mom. I’m fine!” I had heard about difference before that, of course. I listened with laughter as Bill Cosby talked about time he blew up family stove by turning on gas, waiting much too long, and then lighting a match. I listened to my aunt recall time her son came home with a huge rip in both knees of his jeans. When she asked him how he did that, he told her with a shrug “sliding into second.” Seeing look on her face, he added, “What? You didn’t want me to get out, did you?”I was lucky I got some practice in children department before God blessed me with my boy. I was lucky because I got some practice at saying “No” and doling out punishment. However, having two girls first anesthetized me into believing that I could handle all this parenting stuff. I should have known I was in trouble when my sister who has three boys told me when I was pregnant with my third child (no boys to that point in my calm, serene existence) that I needed to have a boy so I knew what “real world” was like. I should’ve known, but how could I have? How, I ask you, can you ever understand over-abundant ball of energy and adventure that is a boy—when you are a girl, and your children are girls, and you can’t imagine life any other way? The answer is: You can’t! You simply can’t picture how enjoyable it will be for your little male offspring to climb onto table and squat right on edge so he can see how high up he is—not once but again and again despite your vehement protests and attempts to thwart him from that to-Mom-far-too-dangerous perching place. You can’t imagine how much fun it will be for him to climb first onto shelf and then onto printer and then onto scanner above just to see what’s on desk. You can’t comprehend how exciting it will be for him to stand on something with wheels and then reach for a stationery object five feet away just to see if you can. And you have no hope of fathoming how entertaining it is to open and then slam oven doors, dryer doors… ANY doors over and over again because he’s pretty sure that it’s going to go “BANG!” but he wants to check it out and make sure. Until you actually have a boy, it seems like an old wives’ tale to you about how things in your house will get taken apart and torn up just to see how they work. Not to mention how thrilling water and stairs can be to your little guy who still seems so unsteady on his feet. Yes, as soon as your little tornado-man becomes mobile, his life quickly becomes one long, endless chain of getting into danger and being reluctantly rescued by Mom. Of course, he doesn’t see it as being rescued, he sees it as “Mom’s taking away all of my fun.” She just doesn’t understand how fun it is to whack sisters in head with a hairbrush while they innocently watch television. She doesn’t get it that buttons are made to be pushed. She is clueless how interesting a simple trashcan can be and how you can never tell what is actually in there unless you take all stuff out piece by piece until you get to bottom!
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