Treat Your Younger Ones Like Adults
Treat your younger ones as adults and they would grow up to be one
I was planning to make a phone call to my boss to explain that one employee of the company owed me some money. I was hoping my boss would help speak to him so I could get my money back. It has been more than a year and maybe even two years and I just needed the money. If only he could pay back. I really need the money. But I needed to do one thing first, run it by my younger brother. That really nice and amazing guy.
His response cooled me down and gave me a better perspective of the situation. His question was if I had exhausted all options of reaching out to the person. I have called his phone and its switched off I explained. He said this person is active on twitter, have you tried reaching him from there? Well, my answer was NO. I had not exhausted that path and I needed to try that first.
I am still working on getting the money but my lesson from this was that when we relate with our younger ones as if they are adults, they clearly come through as one. You might hesitate to say maybe this was an isolated case and that it might not repeat itself, and I would say yes, it is fine. Even if this was once, it still showed that younger people can act like adults. And we just have to believe and act on that.
While still thinking of what to write today, I came across a post by my younger sister. Yes, she is also a writer. Her post was talking about everything around us being a source of story. Little did she know that what she wrote would be a source for my own story. 9 hours after she wrote her story, I am finding inspiration from her post and moving on with my own story.
Clearly she is an adult and acting as one, but we have to believe in them even when the age difference is small or not. We seek to find suggestions from our friends and maybe our parents who might be older or about our age. My suggestion is we can always go a bit lower. Even really lower sometimes. I once read about a research that said children that are spoken to as if they are adults grow up to be able to act as adults easier than does who are not spoken to as if they are adults.
So the next time you want to have a conversation with someone, try having that conversation with a much younger person and see how that goes. Treat the person as if you were speaking with an adult and see how they respond to you. My cousin brother who wanted to raise some chickens but did not find someone to talk about took to his books and wrote about it. Such cute and nice guy.
So younger people are truly adults when we treat them as one. We have to keep doing that and we ourselves acting like a true adult. The world needs us all now more than ever. Thanks for reading and God bless.
