Heyy! How do you do?!.....welcome back kind reader, been a rush of intense weeks since the last vanity card. Great paradigm shifting events have happened.
You know, eight (8) is a special number for me and I thought the 8th vanity card should also be.
I was thinking someday and I discovered how when we think, it's sorta like a round table discussion, different micro-individuals contributing their piece to the final stuff that is said or done.
So, I politely asked two (2) of my micro-persons if they could feature in this vanity card, with one interviewing the other. Thankfully, they obliged. :)
These two micro individuals are named Drakin and Damilola. so let's get to it!
Drakin interviews Damilola.
Drakin: Glad to have you here Damilola. First of all, why is "8" a special number for you?
Damilola: Ohh, that? Probably because I was born on the 8th day of the 8th month and I'm superstitious enough to instantly become conscious of that number whenever I do anything important or whenever something important happens to me. You know, its sorta like my lucky number.
Drakin: Superstitious?
Damilola: Not the traditional definition of "superstitious", but yeahh, sure, I used to have some really weird juvenile beliefs. Like "if you treat someone really well and you're faithful and honest with them, they will ultimately and genuinely reciprocate ".
Drakin: So what took that conviction from you?
Damilola: Experience, repeated emphatic experiences and a friend's advice that goes "Damilola, you must learn not to expect that much from people".
Drakin: Deep stuff, sorry o! Finally, I must ask, since you've discovered that - "how people treat you is really a reflection of themselves and not of you", what do we do about all these people?
Damilola: I say we try as much as we can
to spend extra time and thought considering people, their integrity or lack of it, before we do what we do. I mean we are surrounded by and have to interact with them anyway.
Drakin: Thank you for your time Damilola, you've said some things that will be really important going forward.
End of Interview.
My point?....you see a lot of posts or opinions saying "don't care about people, just do you". But I'm telling you, it is pivotal that you must care about/consider people (and there are different types and quality of them) and still do you.
For what people will remember most about you and subsequently use to treat you is how you made them feel, not how you felt about yourself.
Damilola.
