Compliment

Did you know the importance that a compliment have in people lives? Think about it, when was the last time you tell someone how good she/he looks? Or I like you hair, or you are a very nice person, or you are a good men/women. We live our lives in such a hurry that we sometimes forget to look and notice people around us. Sometimes we forget to be humans, sometimes, we forget what means have feelings.

Doing my internship, I have the opportunity to work with all kind personalities and people, and even though I am there to guide them, teach them, and help them, there are occasion where they are the ones that teach me the lesson. I have been working most of the time with a group of people that have chronic mental illness, people that are abandoned by their families, or are abuse because of their condition by their care givers or even their families. This past weekend I was going to start a group therapy and one of the old guys told me “you are a good woman” and I say back to him; thank you, but you are a good man. I think I make his day with those simple words. He replies back “really? I am a good man? Thank you.” 

That old man remains me that we are humans with feelings, no matter if we are sick, old, young, we have feelings. Do you remember what is the second most important commandment that Jesus taught us and want us to follow? “Love others as much as you love yourself.”  Try to make the time today to give a compliment to someone, maybe you will be making the day for that person with a simple couple of words. 

Matthew 22:36-40

³⁶ “Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?”

³⁷ Jesus answered:

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. ³⁸ This is the first and most important commandment. ³⁹ The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, “Love others as much as you love yourself.” ⁴⁰ All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets^[a] are based on these two commandments.

Big Hug,

MRM