Listening...

“I hear you.”

Those are words I’m not hearing very often. I’m waiting for everyone on my team to catch up.

I’m tired, I’m in pain, I’m having a bad day

or

I’m tired, I’m in pain, I’m having a great day.

Sometimes I can’t stop my face from showing how I’m feeling and sometimes I can hide it pretty well.

Someone telling me “I hear you,” means more than you think.

I fought to stay alive for a whole year; I will not be kicked down in what is supposed to be the happiest time of my life.

I’m ready for new possibilities and I can’t wait to see what the future has to hold....

And I’ll say this again, be kind. Because you don’t know what someone else is going through. I happened to meet someone this week that took 2 minutes out of their day. A complete stranger. To ask about the shirt I was wearing and ask what I had been though. She was crying before I even left the store and I cried the whole way home. I needed someone completely random to tell me that I’m doing a good job and to keep it up even though they didnt know the whole story and they didn’t have to. So thank you Mary, for being kind to another human being.

xo

*I have connected with Mary through Facebook. She said the problem is people will always say “hi, how are you,” but they’re usually in a rush and never stick around to hear your actual answer.