![]() If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because in a way, they are teaching you to love and how to open your heart and eyes to things. If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious when you open your heart. In fact, they are probably the most poignant and important ones. Even the bad experiences can be learned from. The people you meet who affect your life, and the success and downfalls you experience help to create who you become. It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless. Without these small tests, whatever they may be, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. ![]() Nothing happens by chance or by means of luck. You never know who these people may be (possibly your roommate, neighbor, coworker, longlost friend, lover, or even a complete stranger) but when you lock eyes with them, you know at that very moment that they will affect your life in some profound way.Īnd sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful, and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, willpower, or heart.Įverything happens for a reason. Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become. You know, that when I decided to show up on the Apple keynote stage, the stage that Steve Jobs built that is known for the black turtleneck and jeans, that instead of showing up like that, I showed up with my full curly Afro with a tight pink dress on, show off my curves, playing, you know, “Rapper’s Delight” and Afro beats and a song by my niece, Leaf, you know, who-of course, because I’m that kind of auntie-I wanted to show up as a Black woman and not pretend to be something else because, look, we’re not going to be appreciated for being anything else anyway, so you might as well show up as yourself.We’ve collected 7 of the best inspirational and beautiful short stories to help you get through life’s challenges. I know that my contribution really matters, and it is even as important as showing up as my full self, as you just said, you know, not just theoretically and not just psychologically but physically. And so I don’t shrink when I go into rooms. So I want for our culture, for our society, for our corporations to understand that the contribution we have is actually significant, and that we need to walk that way. You know, there’s no need to add fluff or some extra excuses on top of things. In our adult conversations, we need to be clear, simple, to the point, you know, and so in my professional career, it has affected all my relationships that way, you know, that I am clear about what it is I need or when I am moving on to say it just like that. And the unveil for me in that moment, the aha in it was that as adults, we actually need that too. And so we needed to tell her that, and I needed to explain to her when he died that he was not coming back, and I said it as simply as that, as clearly as that. You don’t want them to feel any pain at all, but the truth of the matter was that her dad was dying, and that he was going to be gone at some point. You know, as a parent, you want to protect your kids from everything, you know, the bad stuff. ![]() Well, actually the advice for that moment with my daughter came from a very good friend, Melissa Robinson-Brown, who’s a psychologist and told me to use the real words when I was talking to my four-year-old.
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