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For about 4 ½ months I was
in a Kindergarten classroom as a co-op student. In that time, I'd assist
the teacher with various tasks to gain job experience and hours towards
completing a school course.
During that period, I, for
one week, visited other classroom grades throughout the school. In one of the
older grades, I helped walk lunch duty with the teacher I was tagged along
with.
It was an indoor recess and, though students were confined to their classrooms unless they had a 'hall-pass', many individuals seemed to be walking the corridors.
The teacher would stop them,
chat (she knew many of them by name) and ask them to politely return to their
classroom if they weren't meant to be out of it. Even though they were
blatantly breaking a school rule, she rarely gave them a huge speech or any
severe punishment.
After a while, as if to
explain her reasoning, she said, “You've gotta pick your battles”, quoting some
anonymous philosopher (Richard Carlson, Phd., of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff fame said something to the same effect, but I think the idea goes back a long time before him).
In this world, in this life,
we have only so much time. It's the only limited resource – trees can be
replanted, water filtered, money earned, but time is constantly flowing away,
never to return to the owner.
Only so many things are
important to your success and those you love. Only so many arguments, so many
books, so many dates, so many letters. Sure, some things we can deal with
quickly and move on. But we, in our capacity, have only so many big fights we
can take on. And we, in life and death, are remembered for what those are and
how we deal with them.
Set priorities, remember
what you stand for and what's important for you. Unless it's essential to your
life purpose, let it go.
No one wants to miss their
calling because they were too focused sifting through the laundry.
Alex H.
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