EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS: thoughtful lessons From The starfish Story

I know people are going through a whole lot than they can bear including myself, but most times when I look at all of these I feel a huge wave of sympathy weeping over me, I literally will forget about problem and honestly wish how I can step out and extend a helping hand a sort of relieve to these people,

You see one time a man was walking along the sea shore when he noticed a star fish he bent down to pick it up and throw it back into the water he did for the first then the second the third that's when he noticed that they were a whole lot of star fishes swept ashore by the current while he tried picking the forth back into the water a man walked up to him and said you can't probably pick all of these star fishes back into the waters, he Replied the man and he said yah that's true for sure but he bent down picked the fifth and as he threw it into the waters he said I just did to that one.

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Few years ago I don't know how it all became a part of me but I knew, I made a decision to make sure I put a smile on who ever I came in contact with whether physically or on the phone, it makes me feel better when they actually laugh or smiles it's really does makes me feel good too, cause I knew for a fact that, in that few seconds or minutes that person probably must have forgotten about whatever issues or anything it is that has made them sad, angry, vexed, depressed that moment they can reflect upon and just smile, to me it registers my presence in their lives for that day.

I was talking to a friend who had probably come to the end of the road, totally out of options and at these point anything looks and sounds better, I tried talking to her out of it cause it looks perfectly well we were literally in the same mess financially trying all we can to get out, so I knew definitely how she felt, we talked bought her food and try making the entire situation look so easy, few days ago I chatted her up and tried to find out how she was doing, telling her it will be fine let her just pray about it, her reply to me shocked me till this moment, she told me there's no need to pray about anything, right there I was speechless just left the conversation for the mean time.

The year is just two weeks old and four days old and it is overwhelming the reports of deaths already that I've heard and I'm like what is going on, in my village we have a proverbs that interprets

"when there is life there is hope"

I'm someone who has been struggling with depression for almost all my life, one thing led to another such that I never see anything good about my existence, but then I'm alive and all of my experiences and happenings I always find away to build up my courage it is hard when you're the only one believing in yourself, even when the going gets so tough you look back and there's absolutely no body to give you a thumbs up it's hard to live like that but then that proverbs sinks Into me and always gives me light, of which sometime last year I crafted a mantra that says

"What's ahead is far more greater better than what is and what's past

So the future is were we should focus our gaze on right now, don't just live for now but live for tomorrow cause it is always better than today, everyday is always better than yesterday, I made a decision as part of my new year resolutions to never regret or worry about anything even when I have all evidence to worry or regret it, I choose to let it slid that's because there is no point crying over a spill milk, but rather there should be a silence lesson learned from that experience.

To make the most of your 2024, you must be purposeful, intentional, and determined to make it count in every sense of the word, it's on you to make it, take responsibility for it, life is plane enough it is what you say it is.