Insignificant?

Sometimes it just seems like we are so insignificant.  There are so many people that are just like us.  We're a dime a dozen it seems, dispensable and easily replaced. The world is a competitive place and it's hard....if even possible to get to the top. The world has become all about numbers....and we are just another one.   We look around us at people who are more important, at nature in all it's magnificence, at technology and tall structures and wonders of the world and it all seems to be so much more and we wonder why we are here?  What good can we possibly do in this world?

But it does take all of us in this world.....and where we make the difference, where we are remembered, how we live on... is through the love that we give as we travel this road together.  It is the little acts of kindness that we may  sometimes not even be aware of.  It is the sharing of hours and days and smiles and tears.  It is easing the way for others....holding a hand, a shoulder to cry on, an outstretched hand.   It is sharing life...the joke, the laugh...the kindness shared without being asked....without needing thanks.  It is believing in someone, encouraging them, celebrating with them, and sometimes crying with them and then getting back up and dusting ourselves off and trying again  It is being there...and it is caring....and it is showing someone else....that they are someone to celebrate....that they are important to the world.....because they are important to our world.  I honestly, don't know if there is a greater gift that we can offer.

There is so much good and beautiful...so many wonders within each of us..... and we need to nurture and water those seeds of love in each other so that we may bloom and grow into all that we can be...and share those wonders with each other.  That is what makes life worth living.  That is what makes us valuable...and how we change the world....by loving and giving and sharing.....and that is what makes us stand out as the only one that could live and spread love in our own unique way.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Angelou