THE KIND OF LOVE THAT BUILDS YOU UP FROM THE INSIDE OUT

“I love being around them because they’re what an adult looks like when their parents loved them so well.”

That line stopped me, and it hasn’t left my mind.

Emily Cordonier shared it. She got it from Sara Wiles. And Sara heard it from someone else. It’s one of those things that makes its way across the internet and lands right in your gut.

Because honestly… what a thing to say about someone.
And what a thing to be.

Imagine if more adults moved through the world being people we just love to be around— solid, calm, kind, with nothing to prove, because they were just… loved. Like really loved.

The kind of love that builds you up from the inside out.

Not everyone gets that from their parents.
But as parents, we can try to be better than whatever we experienced as kids (good or bad). And if you’re not a parent but you’re coaching, teaching, mentoring, being the cool aunt or the steady neighbor, you still get to be part of someone’s foundation.

How wonderful it would be to raise a generation that doesn’t have to spend their adulthood recovering from their childhood? To help shape the kind of people who make rooms lighter and conversations deeper, and who make others breathe a little easier just by being themselves.

That’s not small.

That’s how we build a world that’s a little less heavy.

One kid, one moment, one relationship at a time.

Here’s to helping the next generation become the kind of adults we all want more of.