Every little thing is important...

Sitting in a health care providers waiting room flicking through the crappy selections of mags, I came across a beautiful poem that touched me so dearly that I madly typed it into my mobile phone as I sat there waiting for my name to be called.

It is as follows.....

BRIGHTEN UP THE CORNER

Brighten up the corner where you are!

We cannot all be famous or listed in 'Who's Who'

But every person great or small has important work to do.

For seldom do we realise the importance of small deeds

Or to what degree of greatness, unnoticed kindness, kindness leads.

For it's not the big celebrity in a world of fame and praise

But it's doing unpretentiously in undistinguished ways

The work that God assigned to us unimportant as it seems

That makes our task outstanding and brings reality to dreams.

So do not sit by and idly wish for a wider new dimension

Where you can put in practice your many 'good intentions'

But at the spot God placed you, begin at once to do

Little things to brighten up the lives surrounding you.

For if everybody brightened up the spot on which they're standing

By being more considerate and a little less demanding

This dark old world would soon eclipse the 'evening star'

If everybody brightened up the 'corner where you are'!

Marian Humphrey, Korumburra,

printed in the Victorian Country Woman magazine, April 2008. Vol 54, No 3.

I love this, it sums up how I feel about people who put themselves and/or their job down. Every single job, every single action, it all contributes to 'making the world go around'.

You may not be in a job that you think makes a difference to any other peoples lives, but you absolutely are! The person who drives the garbage truck around the streets to collect our household waste is a VIP. Could you imagine life without them? What would we do with all that rubbish? Would we have to cart it down to the rubbish tip ourselves? Would it sit in the backyard rotting and smelling? It's thanks to that garbage collector that we don't need to think about where the rubbish goes, we just put the full bin out on the street at night and bring it in empty the next day. That makes a big difference, doesn't it?!!

So why should these type of workers not get to feel the fulfillment of their job that those who fight fires or operate on hearts do?

We don't all have glamorous jobs. Mine before Mumahood was as a Dental Assistant, and those that don't have the passion needed to enjoy the work have often described it as 'sucking spit all day'! That really annoys me!! I always looked at my job as helping the dentist prep their materials, making the patient feel at ease during procedure, keeping a clean (and where possible sterile) work area, just to name part of the day. And even when it comes to the 'sucking spit', that's an important part of the patients visit...without evacuating the saliva, the dentist couldn't efficiently do the procedure and the patient would feel as if they were choking or drowning. Without the assistant, the dentist couldn't do as good a job, therefore the assistant is needed.

Enough rambling about my own job, my point here is that your job, the job you don't feel so great about, the work you feel doesn't make a difference, does!!

The factory workers who are on assembly lines making parts, they sure do make a big difference. That difference is the chance of something working or not, because of that part they made!

Don't belittle your worth, don't let others belittle it.

Shine brightly, stand tall, know you are important!