Friday, October 31, 2014

The Kindness of Letting Others Know They Matter

“We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.”
―Megan McCafferty

At the end of a particularly long day, my nine-year-old asked, "How was your day?"  "I'm tired," I replied (even though I had decided, on Oprah's advice, not to use that phrase any more).  I can see why," he said very thoughtfully.  "Why do you say that? " I asked.  "Because you have been running around all day," he answered.

At the Oprah weekend -- yep, I can't let it go, I heard her talk about how important it is for each of us to know that we matter.  Hearing my son say that he understood why I was tired made me feel as though I mattered.  And that lifted my tired spirit.

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