Life would not be all that interesting if there weren’t any challenges or obstacles for us to overcome. So then, as much as many of us do wish for a perpetual “easy street” it is better for us in our internal growth to face what we need to face, which we should thus properly see as an opportunity to assess our mettle and to thereby prove ourselves worthy. So too, none of us live in a vacuum, for we are part of a family as well as being part of a society, of which, it is therefore our obligation one to another, to be of help and of aid to each other. One of those seminal ways to be helpful is to be encouraging – especially when we consider that it often takes a long time to master anything of real merit. So then, because it can take us considerable time to completely earn a given skill set, and because that which we are devoted to mastering, must have a beginning to it, then it so follows that when we first begin our journey, that this then is often a time when encouragement for us to keep sticking ai it, will be of high importance.
Indeed, those that discount encouragement in any of their various forms, have gotten it all wrong, because as social creatures, we want to be affirmed as being of value, or of potential. This thus signifies that we each have a responsibility to be encouraging to one another, not only to benefit those that need to hear and to feel that encouragement, but also because invariably at some stage in our own life, we will have been encouraged to keep going on, when we were doubtful or hesitant to believe that we had the right stuff to keep going on to get to where we ought and should be.
While those that are discouraging should not necessarily be seen as always being a detriment to society, for there are times when discouragement has its rightful place because those that are wholly unrealistic about something, perhaps do need a considerate wakeup call – what we should never wish for ourselves or to become is to be consistently discouraging to one another, for when encouragement comes from someone that we hold in high respect, we find that their belief in us, helps us with our own unbelief.
Look, as they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and in order for many of us to achieve high success, this thus requires not only a strong foundation to build our success upon, it also appreciates the value of words rightly spoken that help to lift us up, so as to maintain our focus upon what we need to accomplish. All those that are encouraging to us help to not only to make us a better person, but also is a clear material help for us achieving the necessary things that will make us also a more valued person, who can thus then be of material aid to others.
We should encourage one another, because in our moments of deepest despair, it can be those very words of encouragement that keep us keeping on, and thereby gets us to where we need to be.