the words you give away will eventually come back to you.

greetings, world. how have you been?

i hope you had another great week, with good words following you.

while it has been challenging to balance everything for the past few week, i am glad that i finally get to publish a piece that has been brewing for quite a while.

so,

one thing you should know about me is that most of my life-changing experiences don’t start with a plan but usually with a conversation.

an example of those conversations occurred during an exclusive dinner for the top 5 winning teams of a competition, when i was casually chatting with a HR Manager about my competition experience.

“you know what? that’s great sharing. and you seem to be a good fit for HR. i used to share a lot of similar thinking like you when i was young.” – said the HR manager.

little did she know. that sentence stuck with me for quite a while.

little did i know, from not considering HR at all, i would end up pursuing a career in HR for the next 5 years. my path in HR has extended even further since then.

one day, i met the HR Manager again and asked her:

“hey chị, it’s very much thanks to that conversation that i decided to explore a career path in HR”.

“ohhh really? i don’t even remember me saying that.”

and while, honestly, i felt a bit embarrassed at first. it was as if, for one person, those words meant nothing, but for another, those words mean the world.

but i was immediately overwhelmed by a different notion.

the notion that i could become something bigger than myself with just a few words.

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going back to the recent event, i was hosting a training program and met several new learners.

in one drunk night (yes…), one of the learners admitted:

“you know what chị Hương, i was surprised to see you here. while you may not remember me, i actually met you years ago. you told me words that i still remember until today.”

“wait, what? for real? i did?”

and then he told me that i was rambled something about how not being chosen by an organization does not mean that you are not smart, how things are actually pretty contextual, and how it’s only the end of the world if you start to lose your conviction.

while i was a bit tipsy, those words definitely sound like something i would say…

right at that moment, i found it soooo interesting how my words eventually come back to me in the most unexpected way, and surprisingly, when i am also in need of it.

and that notion i once had hit me again: the one about how i could become something bigger than myself with just a few words.

only this time, i encouraged another person to become bigger than themselves at that moment.

the two events plant in me a thought that if I value something in life and hope to receive it one day, I need to send those words out there – to the world.

let’s say,

if i want to receive more recognition, i need to send out more recognition.

if i want to have more trust in myself, i need to show the humans i met that i trust them at heart.

if i want to have more courage to take the unusual path, i need to tell people to have more courage to be the outliers.

while i can not choose when to receive those words, whether those words are comforting or not is actually up to me – at the first place.

for this is what i believe but could not prove, that words have power, and the words we give away will come back to us,

in the most unexpected way.

and I can’t wait for the day when the words I am writing here come back to me.

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