The world becomes beautiful when we each play our part
Many of us have been in that corner where we have been enveloped with fear of some health predicament.
We have had experiences where doctors have had to break the sad news about some illness we may never recover from. Behind this very difficult situation there are doctors; God bless them.
This past Wednesday I had to go through some medical procedure (nothing major) and there was a team of medical practitioners working really hard to make sure everything goes smoothly.
Ordinarily when tubes and needles are hanging over your head you rethink what is important in your life, in some way you meet “yourself”.
When it was over I was filled with gratitude not just for myself, but for many others who have gone through the hands of doctors.
I thought of the tireless hands behind the lives that are saved and the ailments that are healed.
Medical practitioners are present when our loved ones depart, when we are the dark corner of hopelessness.
They are often on the receiving end of our ungrateful attitude yet many of them still manage to show brilliance.
When doctors deal with people they don’t consider their background, they care very little what class patients represent, all they know is that it is a precious life they are handling (at least the ones I have encountered). They serve without expecting patients to come back and say thank you.
I cannot deny that it feels great to get recognition and reward in what we do, but giving our best should go beyond the promise of a reward or the joy of recognition.
- It should be because our souls yearn to give our best to the world.
- It should be because we want to change the world even if what we can change is the tiniest fraction.
May be the real reason we are alive is to do what we came to do very passionately like doctors, to change the world with our gifts where we are.
I ask you what is stopping you from doing your best to change this world?
I ask you today that you go out and shed a bit of hope and a bit of light on someone’s path; that you give a little bit of yourself to others.
I ask you that when you meet other humans serve them as humans, look beyond their flaws and their background and begin to realize that they are souls carrying dreams that can be given a chance.
May be we are here for that, to serve others, to express compassion and total commitment in what we do. Those I believe are some of the things you can do to change the world.
Why should it matter that we were ever born?
In the end it matters only when our gifts were used to served others and change the lives of others.
It matters when we show up not just for ourselves but when we show up for others, when like doctors we do what we ought to do wholeheartedly and bring hope to others in the face of fear.
Life is precious while you are living it do your best to serve others.
Special thanks to all medical practitioners out there giving their lives to others.