Believe it or not, I was one of those kids who wanted to be a superhero. I always felt the need to help people, especially the sick, abandoned, malnourished ones incapable of helping themselves. So what would I do?
I would roam the streets in capes and shinny costumes, jumping and grabbing the old and sick ones, thinking I was saving them from danger. Sometimes, I'd even take up sticks and start hitting chairs and stones. In my mind I was fighting the 'bad guys'!
I continued this way until I saw the the true 'superheroes'. They were the ones who ran at a call to attend to the sick and injured; the ones who stayed up all night treating a total stranger; the ones who eased the dying process, even occasionally pulling people back from the dead. The true 'superheroes' were the ones who could've just had a 'normal' life like others, but instead chose to be outside, night after night, with just their one life, protecting others who had just one lives too; the ones who used one hand to help themselves and the other to help others.
The true 'superheroes' wore no capes and had no special abilities. The true superheroes were oftentimes not celebrated. The moment I realized this, I felt I knew exactly what I needed to be. This was the kind of superhero I wanted to become!
You see, I never truly realized the cost and price that came with being this kind of superhero, but I understood that a tender smile shot right back at you, a soul transformed from ash to beauty, a rekindled fire, was something worth living for.
A life of service is one that is spent raising people up rather than bringing them down; one that stands for difference, love, and hope. A life of service is reaching out to a damaged soul and arranging the pieces of their fragmented heart; a heart cut out for humanity. A life cut out for service is a life that understands that the mind is like a parachute that works best when it's wide open. Wide open to seeing people not as they currently are, but as they should/are meant to be.
A life of service, though hectic, is a happy life.
— Dee.
Reflection: “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile” — Albert Einstein.
Delight!!!❤️🤍