It’s only
when you begin to grow into yourself that you realize just how important the
people in your life are. You see, a human being is born but a blank book. Every
experience, encounter and person in your life writes a page to add onto the
story of who you truly are. According to the “six degrees of everything
theory”, initially developed by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929; everything and everyone
is six or fewer steps away, from any other person in the world- by way of
introduction so that a chain of "a
friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a
maximum of six steps. This means that you are connected to billions of people
across the world through a chain link, and everyone is more accessible to you
than you think.
Our parents try to mould us into self-sufficient
beings who are able to cope with typical life tasks, but that doesn’t control
everyone we see and everyone we meet. A child will go to school, or play with
other kids in the park: what’s interesting though is that they will take away
bits and pieces of history and personality. As we grow, we make friends, we
make enemies, and we know people that we feel indifferent towards.
However, going about life teaches us that every
single person that we come across impacts our life in more ways than one. Those
that are meant to inspire us make their mark strongly in our lives. Have you
ever heard the story of a little girl, who was abused, molested and ill-treated
in her childhood? She felt lowly and unloved. Hell, I think she must have felt
worthless and incapable of achieving anything- because of her experiences with
people who broke her. One day, this little girl was walking, and an older woman
stopped her and said, “Little girl, you are so beautiful, do you know that?”
And from that day onwards, the girl saw herself differently, she finally felt
worthy. Worthy of success, worthy of love and worthy of respect. She would then
go on to build an empire much bigger and much more powerful than any other
woman in her race had done before, and she would top the Forbes list time and
time again. This little girl was a young Oprah Winfrey. Some people who we meet
inspire us so greatly, that it would be difficult to see ourselves being the
people we are/ want to be without the impact they have in our lives.
And yet there are those, who it seems have the sole
purpose of breaking us. They may come in the form of faux friends, enemies or
unfriendly strangers. They may even be family members who do a lot more hating
than they do loving. The ones who tell us we can’t be whatever we want to be.
The ones that say we aren’t intelligent enough, talented enough or beautiful
enough. It’s important to embrace these people though, because they are only
playing their role in making us who we are. Without them, without the
experiences that they bring us, we wouldn’t be strong and we wouldn’t know what
we know- that we are capable of overcoming difficulties and obstacles in our
path.
Finally, there are those that have always been there
from the start. The ones that love us unconditionally. These are the people who
are not afraid to tell us when we are wrong, those who can smack the sense back
in our lives when we are going astray. I guess it’s safe to say that these are
the most important, because they keep us on track and remain with us through
rough, bumpy roads that seem to lead nowhere. Through every failure, every
success and every mistake, their love and presence remains constant.
What I’m
trying to say is, no single human interaction is a waste. Everyone that we
meet, see or know plays a huge role and makes some sort of impact in our lives.
Every experience we go through comes full circle to make us who we are and
build our character.
That’s all for today, loves! A lot more stuff coming soon. Feel free to interact
with me. Comment, share, like!
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