When people tell you their story, you will be shocked that they still stand.
Life spares no one from its harrowing tests, and it raises the stakes, whether you learn or not.
Luckily, with companionship, humankind is built to go through each test. This is why humans naturally build communities.
Even in societies that elevate the primacy of the individual, when life’s tests become severe, community is actively sought and paid for in cold cash.
Community accelerates the healing required for resilience through life’s tests.
A community starts when a minimum of 2 individuals decide to sincerely share their vulnerabilities, and trust that it will not be weaponized against them.
Be there for those in your care. It is both a selfless and a selfish choice. You can only understand what you give, and you get what you understand.
Those in your care need you to build a community that helps them birth their stories of life’s tests, not one that makes them bury their stories.
Those who can tell their stories, live fully.
Those who can’t, leave heavy.
– Osasu Oviawe