Mentoring Matters, or Making a Case for Hope

I realized that that I’d left something unnamed: hope. In a nutshell, mentoring is about hope. When I mentor, I have hope for those that come after me, I give hope to those following, I am building for a future that I will never see. I hope for better things. There is, I think, hope on the other side as well. The person being mentored (ideally) receives hope, too, not just knowledge and skill and experience, but in knowing that someone else believes so strongly in them that they’re willing to give the most valuable thing they have: time.