Encouragement Hurts

watching my dreams fade into clouds

Encouragement hurts. Maybe you laughed when you read that. Or maybe you scratched your head and said, “Wha—?” Because “hurt” doesn’t follow our definition of encouragement. Somehow we’ve come to believe that encouragement is to agree with someone. So we tell them they’ll be great at something when, in fact, they’re probably not cut out …

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