“Everyone influences someone. The power of influence does not diminish as we grow older. It just becomes complex, and we grow more selective.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 20
In other words
Influence begins before a person can name it. A baby sees speech and walking in the people nearby, then reaches toward those fuller ways of moving through life.
Growing older does not end that process. It makes influence harder to see and gives us more choice about whose example we accept. Wisdom, courage, success, and love of life can still reveal possibilities that were not visible before.
No one stands outside this exchange. Even a person who does not think of themselves as a guide is showing others something through habits, choices, and the way they meet difficulty. Influence becomes more selective with age, but every life still enters another person’s sense of what is possible.
AI-generated from the author's own text.
Elsewhere
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