_{I plead creative freedom on the formatting of that word, you see I could not decide whether to use TitleCase, UPPERcase or lowerCASE and with that out of the way...}

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It all starts a long long time ago, today at noon with the Sun at it's highest I started thinking really hard about the word Encouragement, the kind of focus that makes you just repeat it over and over, slower and slower. You know the kind?*
_{*When he gets a real stern look on his face, you think he might be stroking so long as he keeps doing what he is you are not going to check. That Focus.}

I am no wordsmith but I know that "en-" and "-ment" mean something when added to other letter thingies.

I asked Uncle Google** and got a definition for both which confirmed my initial hypothesis, still not having a real idea as to how this helps me write something on the topic of encouragement - a word so generic in the general scope but life changing to an individual - I decided to try and bring the three words together into one, I quickly found that this has already been done and it was the word encouragement, their meaning alone, however, did not really help much and I only came away with a little better understanding of the word noun and that there is not really such a thing as a postfix.

• "en-" Means to put in, into, surround...
• "Courage" Is a cowardly dog...
• "-ment" is not a postfix, it is the result of or the action of doing something but as a noun

Example
My friend did not want to get into the box since he said he was afraid of the dark, I then forced him into the box which I dubbed the box of Courage, because I was encouraging and a good friend.

Someone knocked on the door so I went to go open it, she asked if everything was ok because she heard screaming. I told her that it was and she could come check if she wanted.

She asked what was that in the corner all taped up and I said it was:

"Encouragement."

Seeing the confused look on her face and slight concern since I did not tape my friend's mouth closed I proceeded to explain with three simple reasons, two of which you already know so I will only explain the third;

You see as soon as I put him in the box of courage, the proper way to refer to it would be to say:

"That my dear. That is Encouragement"

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So for me, that covered the language lesson part but I still had no clue of the actual meat, which is fine if you are vegan but I am not so I am still stuck on the ledge of uncertainty, not a nice place to be and a place that you do not always know you are.

It takes more than yourself to make the jump, to break through the clever mirror reflecting the safety of another floor back at you. and although I fuck around a lot and do not acknowledge outright that some things do matter.


I like being the one that pushes others off that ledge, put them into the box of courage because what they do not realise is that at least 8 times out of 10 that part inside of them that was to scared to make the jump or go into the suffocating darkness is the part afraid from connecting to the magic in our world, those unexplained powers that make you more than you can dream, because even in your dreams that part will hold you back unless someone pushes you, prods you enrages you so much that you have no choice but to prove them wrong, prove yourself right, encouragement can come from anyone or anything, over time or in a single moment.


Encouragement gives you the ability to say Fuck you! All! , because you finally have the courage to stand alone but those three words are not what this posts title is for.

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I love you

The phrase that will keep encouraging more people in this world than any other thing I can think of, "I love you mommy" will have woman rise up and have the courage to destroy those who bring harm to them for the sake of their children and themselves, it is a realization that only required the right encouragement, I think in that time long long ago I could not define encouragement or explain it to myself because it is everything I might want and everything I want to give.

"I love You" that is what my title should be.

_{This is my entry for the @buddyup #dropintheocean show topic: Encouragement; and I encourage you all (the two of you hopefully) to drop into our discord channel and have a chat with us , we won't bite or push you off the ledge just yet so you are safe.}