Our collective well-being is improved if we live in a peaceful and supportive society, so promoting well-being should be a public as well as a personal task. Well-being is more than just happiness. It is about having meaning in our lives, developing as a person and feeling that our lives are fulfilling and worthwhile. Well-being comes from having relationships. Family and friends all can increase our well-being. Our relationships also provide for our most basic human needs. Relationships help individuals to have a fulfilling life, they also help us to live our lives to the fullest potential. Through our relationships, we are sustained in our personal growth and development. Our relationships are the substance to how each one of us grow and interact with each other. The relationship substance strengthens our bonds and builds trust.
Re-enforcement of values is what makes us who we are as individuals. For example, support and confidence from others helps to mold us into being a positive part of society. What makes individuals who they are is contributed by everyone who has helped and guided that person.
Relationships play a central role throughout our lives although the family structure may be different for every individual. Whether our family structure is composed of one or both parents, or other family members, strong support from others is important for that individuals’ well-being.
But just as human relationships with others and our family is essential for our well-being so is trust. Trust impacts everyone. It affects the quality of every relationship, every communication, and every effort in which we are engaged. The ability to establish, grow, and restore trust is not only vital to our personal and interpersonal well-being but for the community as well.
I believe that within each human being is the ability to reach our full potential and change the world, one person at a time. We seek to act with integrity in our own lives, fostering trust in our relationships with family, clients, and community. As people’s lives become more purposeful, fulfilled and happy, so this too makes a positive change in how they interact with those around them, and these in turn affect others. As a result of this, one person living their life according with who they really are can, in a sense, bring positive change to the world.
Each and every one of us can come to realize that he or she, no matter how insignificant or helpless he may feel is in the position to change the world. We must all begin with ourselves; if we wait for someone else, none of us will ever see any change. And it is not true that it is impossible even the most powerless among us has his own willpower, and at the same time, this is perhaps the only thing that no one can take away from us. I want to be that person that gives individuals that hope that they can accomplish anything and in turn can change their lives for the better.
Abigail Mcconahy
your introduction does not capture my attention