Looking back over my life, there are moments that tested me, reshaped me, and even helped me understand better my core values. They are my proudest moments, those moments where I stayed true to my core beliefs in life, which are respect, love, kindness, forgiveness, and lots more! Without further ado, stay with me as I share a few of my practical life experiences in this regard.
One of those moments when I stayed true to my core beliefs was during the early years of my marriage when my voice was constantly silenced. When I had no say but bottled up my emotions and kept enduring things I shouldn't have to. I value respect a lot.
I love it more when we do things together as friends that have common goals and not one authoritative kind of leadership that I was getting from my husband, but then, at a point, I strived to fix things. I told myself that I can't continue living such a way, and I respectfully spoke up, and my voice gave me the freedom that I crave.
Looking back to those years and how we work together nowadays with unity, I will just smile and say indeed, silence is not always the best solution to certain situations in life.
Again, parenting can be quite overwhelming sometimes, but then, I had a bad experience growing up with my grandma in certain aspects of my life. I felt that love was far away from her to me; all I received constantly was name-calling over my little mistakes and some words that always hurt to the point that I began to think it's the normal way of parenting a child.
I was afraid that I would pass the same cycle to my children initially, but I must say that another proud moment of mine has been the way I am nurturing my boys. Instead of name-calling with those hurtful words, I use affirmative words rather because I feel that everyone deserves love.
Even those little hearts deserve some kindness and love; they deserve to be nurtured in a way that they won't grow up to reflect on the wounds inflicted on their hearts as children. Initially , it was a hassle getting things right but it became my proudest moments when I finally did ; my driving force was love , I guess it's the ultimate.
Have you ever made an impact in the life of someone and felt this inner fulfillment within? I was proud to be an agent of change in the life of a friend and assisted her greatly in achieving her dreams. It was that proud moment I stayed true to my core belief: holding onto kindness, realizing that I shouldn't just exist but make impacts in people's lives no matter how small it appears to be.
Now, I look back to different proud moments of my life so far, including the ones I didn't mention here, and I see that they came when I stayed true to my core beliefs, which are respect, love, kindness, and others. I don't think those experiences came so easy peasy, but they look like more than achievements to me. I feel at peace staying true to these core values of mine and seeing results, and that matters.
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