One of the things I like best about my work is that I get to constantly rub elbows with so many good-hearted, compassionate, earnest people who are committed to serving their fellow human beings. In this often disturbing, disappointing world, I get to be reminded regularly that there are legions of people out there who study, train, and endeavor to provide helpful and healing services to others. And in our society, such work is typically not rewarded in an adequate way by financial compensation or renown (a whole other topic for a whole other blog….), and yet over and over again I meet, talk with, teach and learn from individuals who are on a mission to be of service, to do good in this world, to lift others up. It is medicine for me. I am so grateful for them, and I let them know it. I hope you’ll let these folks know, too, when you come upon them. Perhaps you are one of the Helpers yourself – and if so I hope you’ll affirm yourself for what you are doing, and that you will remember to treat yourself with the honor that you deserve, even if it’s not coming your way from society at large. Because it is imperative work, it is essential work, it is indispensable work, and the countless others’ lives you’ve influenced may not be readily cognizant to you on a day-to-day basis, but I hope you’ll have a knowing that you have been an important part of knitting up the tattered yarns of people’s lives – and thus the world’s fabric – and that without you, so much more would go wrong, and so much less would go well. I love you for it, and I hope you’ll love yourselves for it, too.
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