Keep your own measure

Self trust · Little Light original

Some days, you will do work you are proud of and nobody will mention it. A difficult situation will end quietly because you handled it with care. A mistake will be caught before it becomes someone else's problem. The person you helped may never know how much thought it took. It is human to want to be seen. You do not have to pretend recognition means nothing. But on the days it is missing, you can still be an honest witness to your own effort. You know what you brought to the work. You know where you chose patience, where you prepared, where you did the right thing when an easier option was available. Keep those moments somewhere applause cannot reach or erase. They are part of the evidence you are building about yourself. You are becoming someone you can trust, including when the room is quiet.

Little Light