People: Picking Up or Putting Down?

People: Picking Up or Putting Down?
When you walk into a room, does the energy get more positive...or negative?
Does it get brighter...or darker?
When someone comes to you for advice, do you tend to encourage...or discourage?
When people try and fail, do you cheer their efforts...or jeer them?
Let's face it, you are probably like many other people out there: a mix of both.
Sometimes we discourage people from pursuing their goals, hopes and dreams.
it can be because we don't want to see them get hurt.
Or because we don't believe they can do it.
Or even because we do not want to see them succeed, because we may feel like losers in their dust.
It happens.
There were two situations that happened around me this week which helped to shine a light on the question of 'Picking Up or Putting Down'.
One was a negative comment from a stranger, taking a shot at a Video creator.
The other was a set of parents who tried to discourage their son from trying something new.
Both people survived intact...but they each inspired me to create this message.
So...how would YOU have responded to either situation?