People feel comfortable when they know the person trying to teach them has had similar life experience. I look like an affluent dude in nice clothes. Poor people don’t trust me until I tell them I grew up with fleas in my bed, lived in low income housing, and ate discarded food.
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Whatever you’ve faced, scour the experience for lessons to learn. What would you take from this to teach someone else? To teach your own child someday? Then reach out and find someone who needs to hear that lesson.
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You have a chance to reach someone no one else can reach. Don’t succumb to your painful past. Use it to create hope.
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