3rd – 9th September 2017
I went to see a friend this week and while I was there we had a conversation about how she used to talk to her son almost every night. It was a talk to encourage him, to make him realise that he is worthy, to boost his self esteem and to show him he was loved.
She then went on to say that it was like she was a cassette tape that would be played every night. Just then the son walked in and said that all those encouraging words when he was younger really helped him to be a more confident adult today.
I am old enough to remember what it is like to play cassette tapes. When I was growing up all my music was on tape I had a Walkman that I played all my cassettes on.
There was no DVDs or the ability to download your music onto a device. A cassette would play, it would get to the end and then you would have to rewind to play it again. The rewind I remember was really boring it would take a few minutes to go back to the beginning and half the time I would have rather have just changed the tape rather than wait.
I feel like I have played the tape and I now need to rewind to play it again.
I have heard that when you repeatedly hear things eventually it sinks in and you end up believing it. It happens with the negative as well as the positive.
I just feel I need to take the time to rewind that tape of encouragement and play it everyday.
