When you get, give

I watched an interview with Gayle King and the singer, Victoria Monet on the CBS morning show 
Victoria was talking about being in the studio 
It’s during the pandemic and she is breast feeding her new baby and she doesn’t feel like she’s been living a full life
She is struggling with what to say
She says that she decided to say something that someone else would need to hear 
What she needed to hear 
Something she could repeat until she believed it
So she could see it 
She decided she had the words 
She decided 
That means, we can too
We can focus on the promise instead of the problem 
The testimony instead of the test 
We all have moments where we are challenged and it feels like it will never end 
Even the good times sometimes feel like they will last forever, even though we know they won’t
Ram Dass talks about making our life the teaching, by expressing the lessons we’ve learned so it becomes a map for other people to follow 
We can reflect on what we’ve been through and share it as a way to say, it’s ok 
I made it through 
You can too
Maya Angelou famously said, “when you get, give and when you learn, teach.” 
I think that’s what we’re here to do 
Use our lives 
Our voices 
Our stories 
To make the world a better place