Staying Focused

It's been rather difficult to stay focused today, especially since I found out some unpleasant things that were said about me by some very ungrateful people yet they seem nice in front of me.
Why do I keep attracting those horrible people to my life and Why am I even being kind to those undeserving? I wonder how much can a person take before they break. I pray that God just take away all these unpleasantness from my life. All I ever ask is to be happy. I need to develop thicker skin to handle these situations....I have such a weak heart. It gets broken easily.

Anyway, I tried to focus on my reading today...to seek some sort of intervention from how I'm feeling today.

An interesting short story about staying focused on the things that you want in life.

As a little girl, I often tackled a task full of enthusiasm, only to become discouraged quickly. One bright summer day my father showed me an experiment with a magnifying glass and a newspaper. When he moved the glas over the paper from one place to another, nothing happened. But when he held it motionless in one spot for a while, focusing the sun's rays, a hole appeared.

I was fascinated, but didnt grasp the significance of the procedure. Father explained that the same principle applied in everything we do: That to make a success of our lives we must learn to concentrate all our efforts on the undertaking in hand until it is finished.