A snowflake is
one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick
together!
~Author Unknown
The Story of Old Warwick
A man became lost while driving through the country.
As he tried to read a map, he accidentally drove off the road into a
ditch. Though he wasn’t injured, his car
was stuck deep in the mud. Seeing a
farmhouse just down the road, the man walked over to ask for help. “Warwick can get you out of the ditch,” the
farmer said, pointing to an old mule standing in a field. The man looked at the haggard mule, and then
looked back at the farmer, who just stood there nodding. “Yup, old Warwick can do the job.”
The man figured he had nothing to lose, so the two men and Warwick made their
way back to the ditch. After the farmer
hitched the old mule to the car, he snapped the reigns and shouted. “Pull,
Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted! Pull, Warwick! With very little effort, the lone mule pulled
the car from the ditch. The man was
amazed. He thanked the farmer, patted the mule and asked, “Why did you call out
all those other names before you called Warwick?”
The farmer grinned and said, “Old Warwick
is just about blind. As long has he
believes he’s part of a team, he doesn’t mind pulling.
We sometimes make the mistake of thinking we can
do it all by ourselves, however, there’s a popular saying that states, “No man
is an island.” As big and bad as we are (or whether we
want to admit it or not), we need others to survive. The interesting part
though, is we don’t always need someone to physically help us. We don’t always
need a hand-out, an actual helping hand, or even someone to swoop down and save
the day. Sometimes, we simply need others to help us believe in ourselves.
Often times, someone can see potential in us that we can’t even see in
ourselves, which gives us the necessary extra motivation to push us
that
much farther. In the story I posted, we can clearly see how the power of
“positive reinforcement” can play such a huge role, that an average beast of
burden can turn into a towing franchise! Keep that in mind, the next time you
feel inadequate, alone and desperately in need of help. Maybe what you actually
need, is someone to tell you how strong, intelligent, and creative you are… and
of course, I’m not trying to imply that you are a mule!
Issues arise and circumstances change but our
obligations are the same. Whereas help comes in different shapes and forms,
there is nothing more powerful than moral support; knowing that you have people
to “hold you down”, have your back and root for you, is just as powerful (if
not more so) than knowing that there’s someone standing beside you, in the
trenches… In all the endeavours, goals, wishes and aspirations that I set for myself
to achieve, I have my Old Warwick. He gets the support of “the hubby”, my
children, my family, and my true friends (the ones you can blindly count on),
who not only have him believe he is part of a team but guarantee him
that he is!
For the unspoken support and the obvious
presence… Thank you for having my back!
If you want to build a
ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks
and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the
sea.
~Antoine de Exupery
RosieSandz
This article is part of my guest writing project for the website Tarisikoki.com, visit the site for more entries by talented writers.
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