Gift of Encounragement

Today I have opened my email and as usual I got my weekly newsletter from ACTS,my Daily Inspiration mail :) The title of this one was "Gift of Encounragement " and has a little story behind it , that I will share with you a few lines later. Now I want to ask you to stop from whatever you do and ask yourself : What is courage for you ? 

It is quite an easy question right ? Well it took me some time to answer to it , to find the key answer to a question I rarely find the exact time to answer. Lately I thought about my past a lot, about my childhood and about all the strangers or non-strangers that were/are in my life and all the moments I had , all the moments I create and live. I tried to identify when was I brave ? What does courage mean to me? Why ? 

Because now we are living in a world where conections , networks, branding yourself is a very important thing. People forget who they are and become who they need to be in a certain moment or enviroment, which is very sad...We are sad that we don't remember how we were when we were 2, 3, years old but we forget everyday who we are and become some names... 

Why people forget this ? Why is it hard to be natural, to be you , your own feelings ?...Coming back to what is courage, well for me is all the moments when I stepped up and started to be who I am , with all my feelings , with all I had and all I am. It was scary , but now I am happy of what I discover about me , through others around me , I accept and enjoy the fact that I am not perfect. A wake-up call? Din't had one , I just realized I am diferent than others and that I see this world in colours, no matter how black is it somedays , at least at the end of the day I have me not a stranger thinking of the future. As L.P says in one song : " Get wasted on love, get wasted on life, get wasted on anything that's right." And now the story I told you about:

"Gift of Encouragement"

"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."Michael Josephson of Character Counts says that "Mark Gibson, a former gymnastics coach, tells a wonderful story about a 15-year-old girl I'll call Cindy. When Mark coached at a gym where several world-class gymnasts worked out, he said Cindy was the most important person in the gym. Cindy wasn't the best athlete—not even close. But when she was in the gym, everyone whined and complained less, worked harder and achieved more. She brought out the best in everyone. You see, Cindy was blind."When it was her turn to do the vault, her mother would run alongside her, saying, "We're getting close, we're closer," and when her mom said, "Vault!" Cindy, with complete trust in her mother and herself, would jump. It was awesome."Neither Cindy nor her mother allowed her sightless to confine her, so they soared like eagles for all to see. Cindy led in the most powerful way possible, not by fancy rhetoric but by example. All who watched her strive to be the best she could be realized how much more there is within themselves."

Me, asking you , who are you ?