Recently, my wife and I were discussing our day, and I shared an observation that I have made in the past, which has come up again. Why is it that some people don’t know how to accept kindness and consideration? It’s like they don’t know what to do with it. Even something as simple as a good morning or even a smile….nothing. Not a people person? Got it.

Me personally,  that’s how I’m wired, how I’m built. Always try to be kind, considerate,  and respectful. Have I been burned because of it? Absolutely.  Numerous times.  I guess I could blame some of my issues on that, but I won’t.  But I am who I am, and sure, you adapt to your surroundings,  “read the room,” but to compromise,  or change who you are, your true self? No, I don’t think so. Don’t think you should or have to.

They say like attracts like, which is true, even though it doesn’t seem like it sometimes, a least to me. I say this because along with the good people I have attracted,  there have been some not so much. But, is this because that’s what I’m projecting? Is it a warning sign or an indicator that there’s something up with myself? Can be. But everyone has a story… you don’t know what it’s like in their shoes and vice versa.

Regardless, everyone,  especially in this day and age, has been bombarded with the negative, believing the lies they tell themselves daily, instead of trying to become the change. If more people showed kindness, they showed consideration, treated others the way they wanted to be treated,  the world would be a better place.

So, for me, I’m still going to continue to be me. At the same time, constantly become a better and better version of me. The more I do so, the more the useless fall away, and the useful and fulfilling will come. Have to be the change you want. Have to be the light in the mirror that reflects back at you. I’m getting there,  getting better day by day. We’re all in this together.

“There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”.