………………….I hope during my life I’ve helped others to succeed and reach their dreams.
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………………….I hope during my life I’ve helped others to succeed and reach their dreams.
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A long time ago I read a quote that really stuck with me….”People may not remember the exact things we said, but they will always remember how we made them feel.”
If we reflect on our lives, chances are we will remember the moments of kindness and encouragement as well as the pangs of hurt and pain. These few moments in time will linger throughout our lives and we will hear their echoes forever – just like the ripples in a lake when a rock is tossed in. It’s so easy to spread positivity! Even just a smile can turn someone’s day/week/life around!
Years ago I was channel surfing on the tv and came across an episode of a program called “Chicken Soup for the Soul” (named for the popular book series, I guess). On this particular episode, there was a reenactment of young woman in her 30s who went back to her high school late one afternoon to see her former English teacher. She entered his empty classroom and introduced herself to him as one of his former students. He apologized for not being able to recall her. She told him that she would never forget him because he literally saved her life when she was 17 years old.
Back when she was in his English class on a Friday afternoon, just as the final bell was about to ring, the teacher was busily handing back the students’ graded essays. The class was noisy and bustling as the students gathered their things, eager for the weekend to start. The teacher quickly handed the girl’s paper to her with a big ‘A’ on it and told her that she was a very talented writer and might consider a career in journalism.
Little did the teacher know that this young teen had been planning to kill herself that very weekend. Her mother and stepfather (who had been sexually abusing her at the time) had gone away for the weekend, and feeling depressed and desperate, she had meticulously planned her own suicide. But the teacher’s kind words about her talent as a writer provided her with a glimmer of hope that perhaps her life could one day be better. She didn’t go through with her plans to kill herself and was now a happily married woman with a wonderful husband and child. And she was a professional writer as well! She told the teacher that had he not given her that brief, one-sentence compliment, the trajectory of her life would have gone a completely different way.
Everyone carries some sort of burden in this life. Why add to each other’s misery when it doesn’t cost a thing to give your smiles and kind words away each day? Just a thought.
Your quote reminds me of something I once heard about what parents say to their children. Words don’t always mean the same or are taken as strongly as a young child might hear them….so we have to be very careful the way we speak to them because we can scar them forever, and all of the good we say can never heal the one bad thing that left such an impression on them. It goes for adults too.