Give First

Someone said, "I have to give away what I want."  Say that you want to matter in the world, to be recognized, that what you do matters.  What many people do with this "want" is to spend useless energy whining and feeling lots of self-pity, and maybe resentment over not seeming to matter to the world around them.  They feel ignored, anonymous, devalued and the like.  Well, what if you felt like this?  Why not let another person know that they matter and what they do matters.  Call them up.  Write a letter (snail mail!), text or just talk to them about their value to you.  Praise someone for doing their job well.  I suspect this will diminish your whining and self-pity.  Anything that diminishes the power of resentment is a good thing for many people.  I am one of them.  Thank you for faithfully reading my blog.  There are precious few of you, so you are special and rare to me.