A Little Kindness

Some of the best advice for remaining true, not allowing yourself to become bitter, and be able to smile more easily came from one of my dearest friends at the hospital where I used to work. 

He told me to treat each person with whom you interacted with as if they were the most important person to you at that particular moment. 

Another friend told me to do something kind for a stranger each day - the worse you feel the more kind things you do and the better you will feel at the end of the day. Of course, that doesn't mean that your off the hook if you wake up feeling great!

Product of Experience

Over the course of running a business, school, work - life - I've come to know many clients & coworkers, many I'm lucky enough to call friends. For some strange reason people seem to talk to me. Not the "hey, how was your day" conversation but more like the "when I was five..." conversation. I've learned about heartache, pain, chronic illness, abuse, and worse. The kicker is that many of the stories could have been mine.

I've tried to use my own experiences to ease the hurt of others and help them see joy, but over & over I get asked the same question: "How did you survive?"

Many different factors come together to help build a person, not the least are their experiences. You also have what you do with them and how you allow them to shape you.

I knew a very wise woman once - my mother. There was one thing (well, there were more, but let's start with these, shall we?) that she would always remind me:

• "You are a product of your experiences. If you are happy with the person that you have become then you should never regret, nor wish to change, any of those experiences because without them you would be a different person."

For

My sister....

And anyone else, male or female, young or old, that finds that they have or are still running from safety.