Shining together.

YOUR SHINE SPARKS MORE SHINE.

Everyone on earth is on a different track, everyone is running a different race, and everyone is in a different time zone. You are responsible for your own life, and how it turns out, no one will get the stick for your failure, or the honour for your success. Nevertheless, some people will be affected by either your success or failure, so, you should consider the impact neither will have on them.

You don't have to be successful for others to be successful, but your success will increase the probability of succeeding for some people around you. Even if you don't shine, some people will still shine, but when you shine, you help others see their light faster, and the sparks goes around more easily.

Marianne Williamson captures it all in these words "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

You can be a source of light to others, you can be the reason someone achieves success faster than they ordinarily would, you can be a source of motivation to those around you. Let your light shine, and do not hide it, let it brighten the path for others coming behind, let it give them hope that they too will one day be a shining light.

Kamikun John, Author 366 days of wisdom.