I was sitting on my humble little patio tonight, staring at an almost full moon, and feeling something between satisfaction and frustration with my life. Hey, don't tell me I'm the only one who thinks that way.
Suddenly a sense of knowing came over me. That happens once in awhile to all of us, even though we sometimes tend to ignore it. What I realized was this; I am the very best there is at what I do.
I already hear the criticism out there. Who the hell am I to think such a thing. I must be incredibly vain.
Well, I don't think I will challenge the vain comments, but I do want to make something very clear; I do believe I am the best at what I do. I also believe everyone, each of you, is the best at what they do.
This may seem odd and possibly too philosophical, but I firmly believe it to be true. Of course, you first must understand what it is that you are "the best" at. I know there are things I can do as well as, or better than, anybody. The fact is, so can everyone else. While it may seem like a nice thought to recognize talent in every individual, I want to be clear that I in no way think of this as a nice, motivational idea. It is very simply a true statement.
On the surface this is not a difficult concept. If we think hard enough, we can see something good in everyone. A person can be a good parent, a good boss, a good child. We can all be good at something. But I mean everyone is "the best" at something, and I do mean everyone.
Think about the last time you passed a homeless person on the street. Did you feel pity? Anger? Resentment? What exactly did you feel? Did you think that the person you were observing was "the best" at something? I'll bet not. But trust me, that person was. What was that person the best at? Ah, there is the point. We don't know, and we will probably never know.
What about the geeky guy in high school? The person with a severe handicap? The slow learner? Some look down on people like this. Of course many of us are big enough to treat them with dignity and respect. But do we really? Do we really respect them? Do we realize that each of them is "the best" at something?
Every single person not only has talent, but they are truly the best at something, whatever it is. The terrible shame is that, for the vast majority of people, often even for ourselves, we never find out exactly what that is. What a terrible, terrible shame.
When you see a person, possibly homeless and sleeping on a street, maybe old and in a nursing home, maybe someone who has a learning disability, and yes, maybe someone like you, know that in them (in you) there is something not just good, but something that is the best that there is. How wonderful it would be if we could all get in touch with that "something" in each of us. How wonderful it would be if we could even get in touch with that "something" within ourselves.
