You are not useless. You have a value that you can add. No one is useless. Just because someone is unable to see your worth, that doesn’t take away your worth. It only takes the right person to appreciate and understand the value that you bring to the table.
There is no one without value. We may not see it now or we may fail to see the value, but no one is without a certain level of goodness or value that they can add to another person. Often times we sometimes feel we have nothing to offer, but deep down, if we look inward, we can see how we can benefit another life.
For others, it might be later before we truly see the value they add to us and also for us, to know what we have to offer another person.
When you add value to people’s lives, it makes it hard for people to ignore you. It makes it hard for your voice to be silenced, and it makes it add for you to go unnoticed.
I reconnected with an old secondary schoolmate recently. We did a lot of catch up and picked up from where we left off. You know the type of people you were not close to back then but still flow very well? Exactly. We were not really close then, but we talk and laugh, and now we have reconnected and we are way closer now than then.
I told him about some paints that I needed for a new apartment I am working on. He told me his sister produces paint and he would help me speak with her. He did and the woman asked me to bring just 10,000 naira (local currency), which will cover the cost of materials to be used in producing it, and she will bear the rest. I was stunned and excited. If I was to get the paint myself, it would cost me nothing less than 35,000 naira. My friend, through his sister, just saved me a whole 25,000 naira; speaking of leveraging on friendship.
His value to my life wasn’t known as a few weeks ago, we did a lot of catching up, watched football together, I gave him relationship advice, and that’s about that.
I have known another friend and we actually grew up together before we parted ways physically, but we still get in touch through calls and chats. I remembered he is into painting too and I called him up to ask him for the charge in painting the apartment. It was as if this guy took nothing from me. He lowered his fees just because it is me. He did such an amazing job that I am so much in love with. He is the same friend I spoke about with my late dad, who helped him in paying his examination fees way back, that I didn’t even remember until the mother reminded me.
We all have value to add to people. We might not understand why we have certain people in our lives right now, but time is the true test of everything, and with time we will know what value we can add and what value others can add to us. Never rule anyone out. Never conclude over anyone while they are still a work in progress. No one is useless and because you can’t see it now doesn’t mean you won’t see it. If you think they are useless, it is no longer about them, but about you, so you have to tune in and change the frequency at which you are viewing them because no one is useless.
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