Standing Up
My niece has always been a queit girl. Never one to rock the boat, voice her opinion or make her self noticed. She’s a beautiful girl. She’s a smart girl. She’s popular enough at school. She has a date for Prom. I noticed she didn’t fit into any one specific clique at her school. One day I asked her how life was at school.
“It’s good. No pressure,” she replied. “I go to school, do my work, hang with my friends.”
We discussed the issues of bullying, popularity, trying to fit in, peer pressure and other things that plague teens while at school. She said she dealt with it by ignoring it. Such wisdom from a sixteen year old.
“I just ignore it and be myself,” she said. “I ignore the others and they ignore me. I get along with everyone.”
She told me one about how a classmate was getting picked on and noone would help them. She took it upon herself to stand up to the bully herself. A few years afterwards, she told me that by standing up to that bully for someone else had given her the strength and confidence to stand up for herself in tough situations. She said she realized how strong she actually was.
I realized that my niece had a strong yet quiet confidence in herself. It was something that will take her far in life. She is now graduating college the top of her class. She has a job with Pixar Studios as soon as she is out of school. I thought about how she has made her way through the tough years of highschool and realized that it was her inner confidence with herself.
This makes me wonder if the quiet women out there who are lacking the self confidence might benefit from my niece’s wisdom. Maybe if they were to be in a situation where they were able to be the champion of a person who needed someone to be the strong one they would find that there is a strength inside themselves. Maybe they would gain the self confidence they lack by standing up for someone else besides themselves.
Sometimes it’s easier to help someone else before we help ourselves. But in helping others, we can help ourselves.
So if you find you are in a spot in your life where you aren’t feeling so strong or confident… help someone out who needs you to be the hero. Then look at yourself and see the Super Woman you really are!
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