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NURTURE OTHERS


Today's piece will be straight, punchy, and very blunt; to make our lives count, we need to get a grasp of the reality of nurturing others.


I have always wondered, what makes people think that if they help someone especially those below them it makes them helpless? Or rather, can lightening up someone's candle make yours dim? I strongly believe for me and you to make this our time-bound life count, we must be comfortable with nurturing other people and celebrating their success. 


Over the years, in my little sphere and corner of influence, I have seen quite a handful of people looking up to me in so many aspects of life for nurturing. This has set me on my toes to live as I should and ensure that I don't fail them when it's all been said and done.


We all have something in us that is instrumental in the lifting of others; it could be a word of encouragement, a little push, our widow's mite, our time, our wisdom, teachings, our listening ears, or even our way of life.



While on our way to fulfilling destiny, we all need nurturing, and we don't have all it takes in ourselves to do that, we need the help of others - we need to be empowered. Look at who you are and where you are now, you have been partly nurtured by one or two people in the past. It doesn't matter what stage of life you are in now, I strongly believe someone is looking up to you for nurturing as you are also looking up to another for the same. 


I know by now you have gotten the juice of the orange I have been trying to squeeze in this piece - nurture others, empower someone, help others become a better version of themselves.


You never lived if you failed to leave a footprint, an imprint, or even a fragment of yourself behind in people's life. Nurturing others requires humility, it needs selflessness and it will take you out of your way to achieve that. But for what's worth, the world would be a better place if we all go about nurturing others and allowing ourselves to be nurtured as well.


Start today, start now, start with just life and you would have made your life count. 


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  1. Tongjal, W. N.28 November 2021 at 11:57

    It begins with living with the consciousness that one's actions or inactions influences the next person.

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  2. Unknown28 November 2021 at 15:16

    There's always joy in knowing you are meeting a need somewhere... May we learn to live for others as well as ourselves...

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