How IMPORTANT are you?Have you ever thought of how important you are to another person? The extent of how important you ARE, varies among all the people around you. The same goes for the importance of these people, TO you. This friend may not be important to you, or be able to influence/affect you in anyway. But YOU may be of the utmost importance to this same friend, and every thing YOU do, affects him or her greatly.
Have you ever hurt someone unknowingly? Or been hurt unintentionally by someone? It's really the problem of the difference in the level of importance you treat each other with. If this person is important to you, you'll never dream of wanting to hurt them.
As a teacher, I have to believe that I'm important to everbody. I have to practice what I preach, and tell myself that everything that I do in front of ANYONE, can affect them. Similarly, EVERYONE is important to me. So many times have I been struck by a simple sentence, which made my heart sinks.
Do you believe that your smile can brighten up someone's day and make them forget about all the unhappines that has accumulated in them? I do. There has been so many instances that I needed just to see someone I trust, or just a simple sms, to reassure myself that there's still people on my side. There're times that the wish is not fulfilled of course... and all I can do is to swallow my grievances... It's hard. I know.
So many times have I done so much, and not received any gratitude, or someone just says that nobody cares for them. It tells me that I'm not as important to you, as you are important to me.
Don't always think that you're the only one suffering. Don't always say that you're a nobody in people's eyes. Because when you say that, you're hurting the very person who's trying to help you, because you're important to this person.
Don't belittle your importance. Because you never know when you'll really need this person again, but has left you, because she thought that she's no longer needed in your life.
