Unforgettable Compliment (Day 2 of 30 days of writing.)

Something someone told me about myself that I never forgot.

Day 2 of 30 day writing challenge.

I have heard a lot of things through out my life that I will never forget. Especially and mostly in the last year I have heard such nice things from people about whatever it is they see in me that makes their life happier.

The most meaningful, and harder for me to forget are the ones that come from complete strangers. Of course a compliment from ones that I know mean something to me, but there's something a little different and more honest I guess, when it comes from someone who doesn't know me from Adam, verses someone who has known me for however long and has gotten comfortable with seeing me often, becoming less aware over time of what they might have seen in you when they first met you, also.

When Brandon and I first got together in August, I was in the midst of what I still think to be my spiritual awakening. During that time I was becoming more conscious, grateful for life no matter what(I was homeless too), keeping a positive attitude always, and more in touch everyday with what my purpose was.

We stayed up all night talking on multiple occasions, just so he could listen to me talk and share with him these different things I had experienced that was really changing my life. I told him of my new found self control, motivation, determination, how to look for the lessons in whatever mistakes have been made, how to apply these things to life and all of my wisdom that I have attained over the course of the year.

Brandon told me once, "You have a light inside of you and you are going to do big things. You are going to change lives, because whether you believe me or not... You saved mine. You are the light to my darkness." I don't hear it very often anymore, but like I said above, less awareness of the things they saw in you when they first met you. 

That doesn't mean they don't still feel like that either, because I know Brandon does. He might not tell me all the time anymore, but he believes in me to change, save and uplift the lives around me.

Getting back to the point of this post, that is something I will never forget, because with him telling me that,  he brought me even more close and aware of my purpose in life, and ever since then he has helped me in living that out.

That is why I say, I would not be me without him.

"I am because you are."