Be the best YOU, you can be!
I’m not a Mother Theresa, a Delta, Kylie or Brynne, or anyone else living or dead – Just ME trying to do the very best I can to see the best in everyone, make the best of every situation and turn away from the darkness that surrounds us.
“If you compare yourself with others you will become vain or bitter”. My mother once told me ‘We all must try to be the very best we can” – “You cant do more and you wont do less than your best.”
This is a lovely story and well worth remembering especially when it comes to recognizing that every INDIVIDUAL has something to offer
CRACKED POTS
An elderly woman had two large pots
Each hung on the ends of a pole, which she carried across her neck. One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.
Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do. After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream. ’I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.’ The old woman smiled, ‘Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side?’ ’That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.’ For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.
Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.’ Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.
SO, to all of my cracked pot friends, have a great day and remember to smell the flowers on your side of the path!
vivtwelftree 