Hard times prove true friends.

The true ones will come through for you 

Have you ever been in your lowest and some people that you think will raise you just walk away like they didn't notice your fall, though you were always there for them in their lowest and you come through for them, you sacrifice your happiness for them, they call you the backbone that keeps them going and strong, you felt these people really love you and they will always do the same if you were in their shoes, but not all of them usually came through for you when you needed them the most, some come up with invalid excuses when some don’t even pick your call. 

 A few days ago @George_Dee talked about an animated movie “Encanto” that he watched and I decided to check it out, it has a lot of lessons to learn which I am about to write a few things that I learned from it. 

A woman was given a magical candle after she lost her husband who was trying to save the entire village from being enslaved, the woman had just given birth to triplets when the incident happened, the magic candle build a house for her that does chores, everything in the house is magical when the kids were about 5 to 10 years of age, they will be given a door, which they will open and have magical power, the triplets were two female and a male, the male child has the gift of seeing the faith of people and things, one of the females has the power to heal people with her food, while the other female can control the weather. 

They used the magical power to serve the community for 50 years and people love them as the family grew, the daughters got married and had three children each, while the son has to leave because the people believe that his gift was not helping the community and all he sees his bad things which usually happens after telling them.

The grandchildren were also using their gifts to serve the community and there was one grandchild that didn't get a gift, she was hiding her tears behind the mask of being okay and everything be alright, the grandmother wasn't okay with it and she always tell her to not get involve in helping the community because she has no gifts at all. 

The family served the community for 50 years because things started falling little by little, their magic started to fail away, the magical house that can't be broken begin to crack, the girl without gift was the first to notice it, she tried to alert her grandmother but the grandmother insists that everything is fine because she doesn't want the community to lose hope in them, she wants to maintain the balance in the community so people will still believe that they got everything under control. 

There were six grandchildren and five got the gift, the girl without gift took it on herself to find out what was happening to the magic, she went to the uncle room to seek for answers because her uncle can see the future outcome, when she got there she saw one of her uncle vision that was broken and she was the one in the vision while the house was broken, then she got to realize that the faith of the family and the entire community is in her own hands, she either let it fall or build it up, which was still confusing for her because she doesn’t know what exactly to do. 

The girl got into a serious argument with the grandmother and she started to say how uncomfortable she made them feel, always doing things in her way and telling them what to do, she deprive some of them of knowing their true self because she wants the family to serve the community with their all, even if it means for them not to be their true self, the house began to break down and the magic was failing away, the mountains that were guiding the village against intruders divided, the tried to save the candle but it all went off and they all lost their magic.

The grandmother thought all was lost and without the magic, the village people won't respect them again, the girl made her see that the true miracle is oneself and not the gift that was given to them, the son came back after a long time of hiding in walls of the same house, so they were planning on how to rebuild their house after the clash and start over as a normal family, to their greatest surprise, the villagers came through for them with tools to rebuild the house, the grandmother saw the love and was very happy in the heart after they were done with the building, they gave the girl the key to open the house, as she opened it, the house became magical ones again. 

Closing thought 

The grandmother spent 50years giving to the community and she wanted the legacy to pass down to the generation, she thought that the moment she stop giving to them, they will throw her out, but she never knew that it was all in her imagination, the community came through for them when they were at their lowest because they remember the good being given to them for 50 years, that's called true followers, it's not all about taking always, it's also about giving to show the appreciation that you care for them as much as they care for you too. 

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09/01/2022