“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel”.
– Maya Angelou –

When I read this quote its so moving; but does everyone really forget what someone has done to them?

This quote reminds to forget my past hurts because it’s not worth it. The person that I thought may have hurt my feelings doesn’t even remember what they said the majority of the time so there’s no need for me to remember.

This scripture popped into my mind.

1Peter 5:7 “Casting all your care upon him; for He cares for you.“

This verse is powerful because in order to move on, we have to let that stuff go.
Here are a few suggestions that we all can do to make ourselves, as well as others, feel good.

How do we spread the love and give out good feelings?

We have to treat people the way we want to be treated.  When we say kinds words that build people up it’s powerful.  Encouragement is an energy booster and that feeling is what we remember.

1. Call your  Mom and Dad if you are blessed to still have them with you here on earth. Tell them you love them and appreciate them. If they are not with you, speak highly of them when you talk about them even if you did not have strong connections with them.  I heard one of our ministers at church say if you can’t think of anything good to say about your parent, you can say that they really kept a clean house or that they always looked sharp in their outfits.  No matter what we have to hold our parents in high regard.

2. Be a mentor to a young person in high school or college. Share with them knowledge from what you have learned and pass it on to youth so they don’t have to encounter problems. Avoiding certain obstacles along the way.

3. Say kind words to a friend and give them a hug. Share how much they mean to you.

4. Give yourself a hug because you have to love yourself before you can truly love others.

This list is just a start. You may have completely different things that you need to work on because none of us have it all together, even if we want to give the facade that we do.

It’s self examination time in that quote by Maya Angelou, which is a good thing.  It makes us put ourselves in check to see if we are really treating our friends, family, people in general the way we want to be treated.

Are actions do speak louder than are words.

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