Happy Late Valentine’s Day!

Or as my friends and I like to call it: Singles Awareness Day 😛

Anyway, I hope you had a good day, whether it was with someone you love or just hanging out with friends, or staying home eating chocolate you bought for yourself and watching a show you promised a friend you would watch and with nothing better to do you finally watch it and accidentally become obsessed with another show you really didn’t need….

No, I didn’t do that (I was actually with friends all day and night) but I bet at least one person somewhere did that 🙂

Anyway, The thing that prompted me to write this post is I have a friend who is really good friends with my brother, and she messaged me on Facebook asking if I would be willing to read her story idea. I told her I did and I read it, and it was a really good idea, and I loved the message behind it, and I told her as much. I also told her a couple things to watch out for if she was going to publish and if she wanted any tips or info that I would be willing to help, and if I didn’t have the answer I have a really good friend who is a master at this kind of thing (How do you think I made it this far?).

Now what happened later that day: I have a tumblr account that I like to reblog stuff than post. Well, I saw a comic on my dash that I had seen before, but it’s one of my favorites! It’s about how it doesn’t cost you anything to support someone with their work (drawing in the comic’s case) and how that that person you encourage could go on to do great things like creating the next big TV show and inspiring people, etc., while telling that person that what they drew was stupid or wasn’t good or something, and none of that stuff could happen.

Then later I was on Facebook (I have no life between work shifts :P) and a post showed that said something along the lines of ‘If someone shares something they are writing with you, that means they trust you with their inner thoughts’. I read that and I was honored! I kind of felt like a famous author being shown one of my fan’s work and them wanting my approval. It was kind of cool!

Basically the point I want to get across is if someone trusts you with their work, whether it be drawing, writing, or something like that, then they see you as someone they can trust with their heart, and you can be the one that makes or breaks them. Our words and opinions of someone’s work, especially for those who are just starting out with shaky confidence, will stick with that person for a long time. I want to be someone who can help people reach their dreams, so I try to be positive and supportive, so that if it really is something they want to do, it will be their decision to continue or stop, not because of something negative I might have said.

Well, this was just something I have been thinking about a lot lately and wanted to get it off of my chest. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the weekend!