The right words
It is always fascinating to me how the right person can say just the right words in just the right way to ground you.
I can have 100 people telling me something but it is the one person who may say the same general thing to me and for some reason it clicks.
Keep those people. Keep the people who can throw you a life preserver just by saying the right thing.
Maybe it is the fact that they care enough about you to remind you that you matter. Maybe it is their voice.
Whatever it is, those people are extremely special. Hold onto them.
When you are rolling the weight of the world like the Greek god Atlas, the one person who comes along and tells you that you are doing a good job; yeah, keep that person.
And while you’re at it, it might not kill you to be that person for someone else. We all are carrying a world of weight…