A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 8

The people around you might not appreciate what you are worth. Appreciation and value are two different things, and the gap runs both ways — sometimes more than your worth, sometimes much less. “The lack of appreciation portrayed by those around you does not make you any less valuable.”

It still stings. It can attack your self-worth and knock your confidence — but their reading of you is subjective, and a good attitude helps you keep growing through it.

So the move is not to shrink; it is to look wider. Somewhere there are people who do see the value: a matter of discernment, building on those relations and reassessing the ones that don’t. Everyone carries attributes worth something to someone — “find your place of value.”