Be Kind to Oth­ers

            Wel­come back Saints stu­dents and staff. Hope you are all hav­ing a good se­mes­ter so far.  

Refuse to let the world for­get who you are. Look out for oth­ers and be kind to them for no rea­son.

Credit: Son­der

I think we all go through our days where we are so fo­cused on what we have to do later or that week­end. I think we of­ten for­get that the peo­ple around us are go­ing through things as well. I want you to stop and think about how you can be more kind and be more aware of oth­ers around you. Even just giv­ing some­one a com­pli­ment can make their day. It could change the way they felt about them­selves. We don’t know the bat­tles oth­ers face and I think if we cared to pay at­ten­tion more we could help even in the tini­est of ways.

I be­lieve Maryville should host a Men­tal Health Aware­ness event. Give peo­ple in­for­ma­tion on how to deal with the is­sues they are fac­ing and let them know they have re­sources. Some­times it just feels good to know you’re not alone and you have some­one that cares.

I went up to ran­dom Maryville Stu­dents and asked them a few ques­tions about men­tal health and what they thought about MU host­ing an event or men­tal health in gen­eral at school. Stephanie said “I would like to see the school put sev­eral dif­fer­ent re­sources stu­dents could use to get as­sis­tance with their men­tal health. Some­times it is dif­fi­cult to find where to get help so that could be help­ful to the peo­ple afraid to reach out.”

Lis­ten­ing to oth­ers is so im­por­tant. Peo­ple start to heal the mo­ment they feel heard. Credit: UK Mu­sic

The sec­ond per­son I ran­domly asked was named Austin. He said “I would like them to give us tips on how to jug­gle school, work, life, while still hav­ing men­tal is­sues. So, I guess just things to help us cope.” I agree with him be­cause we need to be able to know we have the op­por­tu­nity to get bet­ter with­out feel­ing like that’s an­other task.

At the end of the day we have to care of our­selves but lis­ten­ing and be­ing there for oth­ers can change peo­ple’s lives. Don’t judge oth­ers, for you don’t know the path they have walked just to get where they are to­day. Be con­scious of how you treat the peo­ple around you and pay at­ten­tion to the peo­ple near you, for you never know how you can im­pact their life.