Friday, I received two e-mails which made me cry. I decided that I am going to make a difference, but boy, I never expected it to be so difficult.
First one, the teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students and write the nicest thing they can (about that person). The teacher then took another sheet of paper (one for every student), and listed what everybody had said about that person. That Monday, she gave each student his/her list. They could not believe that they meant something to anybody else, or did not know that the others liked them so much.
Nobody ever mentioned that paper ever again (in class). The teacher was happy because the students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.
Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and this teacher attended the funeral. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin, and while standing there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer asked her if she was Mark's math teacher? She confirmed it and he said that Mark talked about her a lot.
At the luncheon, Mark's mother and father waited to speak to this teacher. Mark's father said to her that he wanted to show her something, and with that, he got Mark's wallet (which he had on him when he died), and removed two worn pieces of notebook paper, taped, folded and refolded man times. She immediately knew that it was the list of all the good things his classmates had said about him.
Mark's mother thanked her for that (because he treasured it) and then, all his former classmates started to gather around. One by one, they told her where they've put theirs. One was even in a wedding album. They said that they think that everybody saved theirs. The teacher just sat down and cried.
Friday night, I decided that I am going to love and praise my family with all I have. First, do not think you can just start praising somebody and they will accept that. I realised with a shock that some people are so negative in their way of thinking, that they cannot even accept a compliment, without a negative remark. By the way, that was one of the reasons why I started to work on that specific person.
Imagine, you are telling someone or somebody you are proud of him/her and that you love him/her and that you are glad that person is in your life, and he/she just start saying: "But when or but why, etc. Believe me, you are going to sit with your hands in your hair, and not knowing what to do.
I have decided to keep on doing that, and the reason therefor, we all have issues from the past, some gets over it and some people do not get over it. That is one of the reasons why some of the people stays negative. I need to boost that person/s, so that he/she knows that he/she is a wonderful creation of God.
Sometime, we wait too long and then we have a problem. I am a caring person, who like to hug and kiss. Somewhere along the line, I too, got rid of this wonderful way of showing love. I hug and kiss some members of my family, but the ones who do not like it - I leave them. I am going to start by telling them how much I love them and how much they mean to me.
I dare everybody reading this, start this in your family, if you do not do it. We all survive from love. Just remember, money cannot buy love
I will chat about the other e-mail in my next posting.
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