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when there is no encouragement

Karyin Ow
2 min readJan 8, 2025

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Photo by Faheem Ahmed on Unsplash

This opens up my 2025.

Siting in a busy cafe. I’ve heard a voice:” why can’t someone close to me, encourage me. Give me some encouragement I need.’

I am writing to you. You are not alone. Every day, we will feel out of strength, or face some set back or hear criticise from who and who. Nothing is ever good coming out from another human. Encourage words seem locked and expensive when you needed more. Maybe some sincerity words of encourage word please. Incoming of the negatives and non helpful and meaningless remarks is tiring.

This is for you. I know someone need to hear it. Because I needed much too. Something, we seem to be left out, or left alone because we are the quiet kind, doing our job quietly. Because we are introvert don’t mean we need to hear discouraging comments.

Whatever you are going through right now, know that, you are doing very good. Even though no one praises you. Even though you don’t hear encouragement. Remember, don’t out the negatives sunk into your heart and let it have a place. The set back, the broken feeling, the not welcoming feeling, they are not the real feeling. It is temporal even though it seem real and you got hurt. But know this, the negative feelings you had is the opposite, it is trying to tell you something. You have to listen to it, feel the NOW. Feel the flow. Why is that…

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Karyin Ow
Karyin Ow

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