Sharing the love

This is a post that I wrote for my other blog, Bump and Beeyond prior to me having a Steemit account (and then deciding to merge them). I felt compelled to share it on this platform today because of a lovely gesture that was made to me by fellow member @tryskele via the #payitforward contest on here. This simple, but very thoughtful act, reaffirms my sentiments in this particular post that wrote. I hope you enjoy it...

SHARING THE LOVE

My next post was supposed to be about buggies, but after reading a post on the Honest Mum blog (via Twitter)I felt that I needed to put the buggy post on the back burner, because this one was more important.

“Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.” ~ Marianne Williamson


Today, as I was scrolling through my Twitter feed, I came across a post from a well known (award winning) blogger, Honest Mum. She was offering everyone “an opportunity to share recently written posts and/or archived ones you want to champion, posts which are important to you” via her linky #brillblogposts. For a novice blogger like me, this is a lovely and generous gesture by not only a stranger, but a successful stranger, who does not need to do something like this. This gesture was so heartwarming, and has sent me into deep thought about society and how we all generally treat each other.

We live in a world where we all tend to be protective about many things, and understandably so; our privacy, our wealth, our work, our followers, our success, and our ideas, to name a few examples. The common belief that resonates around this is that there is not enough for everyone, like there’s only one big pie that everyone is trying to get a slice of, but once that last slice is gone, it’s gone. Therefore, we need to compete with each other for a piece of that pie, and in doing so, we nurture a consciousness of fear and lack. Random acts of kindness are a rarity, and are often met with cynicism and suspicion, “I wonder what they’re getting out of this” rather than just embracing the act and saying, “thank you.”

As a mother, I’m constantly thinking of what kind of world my children will grow up in, and how I am preparing them for this world. I want to protect them and teach them how to be safe, but I also want them to dream and go on adventures. I want them to accept help, but never forget to help others. I want them to be grounded but not cynical, to be dreamers, but not airy fairy. And when it comes to success, I want them to believe that there is enough room for everyone; if they ever “make it” they should remember to help others by paying it forward. There is an abundance of pie!

I’d like to end this (short) post by saying a big THANK YOU to Honest Mum for sharing the love, and to leave you with a quote from Buddha:

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the single candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”


Namaste x