I happened to have this come across on social media a while back.
And you know, it got me thinking a bit. Actually, it got me thinking a fair bit over the past few days.
How hard is it, to make others feel important?
You know, to make them feel like they count. That their life has value.
I read somewhere that "every person wants to be important, wants to nourish and nurture the feeling of importance. A person's, greatest emotional need is to be accepted and appreciated by others, to be considered as an important person."
When thinking about all of this, I Googled the phrase "Why is it important to make others feel important."
Guess what came up?
Sites and articles from business and human resource perspectives, on why making people feel important is good for business. All of which is fine and dandy, but a bit cold from where I am.
Nevertheless, those results coming up first in the search, sort of disturbs me.
In fact, it disturbs me a lot.
From my side of the fence, and granted it is just based on a brief glimpse through the search results, from the business and human resources bit, it is simply nothing more than a game to be played. I know this isn't the case, but I didn't read that your employees or customers are important.
I read to make them feel important.
From my perspective "are important" and "feel important" are kind of two different things.
But, we're not talking about that.
The reality is, isn't it more important for us, to make those around us feel important. To feel like they matter; that their life has value. And the funny thing is that in return the same thing happens to us.
Obviously, this post isn't "the end all to be all" in terms of making those around us feel important. And, you know what? It's not meant to be.
But, if "a person's, greatest emotional need is to be accepted and appreciated by others, to be considered as an important person."
Perhaps, today is the day to start being that "somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody."
It's one thing to think that the person across from you is important. It is a totally different thing to make that person feel important. To make them feel like they matter.
Be a maker, not a thinker.
Just a random thought on an early Wednesday morning.
--as always with love--
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