What is your profession? Are you creative? What are you passionate about? If you can answer any one of these questions, there are over 7 billion people in the world including yourself that contribute to that same passion one way or another. When I think about the different professions, creative works, discoveries, nuisances, technologies, and so on it makes me think about Mama saying, “It takes all kinds to make the world go round.” When I see a first responder on television attending to someone who is injured, I know that is not for me. I wouldn’t be able to function. As nurturing and helping as I could be, the stress in that scenario would override my ability to provide care. I enjoy watching the construction of buildings from start to finish because carpentry fascinates me but it is another profession that is outside of my skillset.
My passion is caring for kids. I have had different people share with me that they don’t know how I do it, but caring for children, playing with them, and loving them comes easy to me and is natural for me. As I mentioned in post When God Directs Your Path, my passion to care and teach young people started as early as age 7. Recently, I drove by a construction site, and saw the workers driving bulldozers, cranes, or other construction vehicles. I thought…’I wonder if being a construction worker was childhood dream'. Thinking about children playing with construction toys, they tend to have such joy as they imagine digging into the ground making dirt hills and constructing buildings. Maybe they were fascinated by the operation of real construction vehicles that they would see in passing on the street or watching them on television. What occupation impressed you as a child? Did it inspire your occupation as an adult in the marketplace?
A Child Inspired
I met a holistic physician in 2022 who practices leech therapy, which is used to treat various health conditions. I asked him what led him to practice Hirudotherapy. He shared that when he was a little boy his aunt had a critical health issue with one of her legs. He remembered watching her at a distance seek traditional medical aid for a long time, but nothing made her leg better; instead, it worsened. Then the words no one wants to hear with a health matter, ‘there is nothing else we can do’ were told to her by her doctor(s), but later the young boy watched his mother place leeches on the affected area of his aunt’s leg. He mentioned that he witnessed the leeches attached to her leg swell up from sucking the infection out of her leg. He recalled her leg healing shortly after the leech application and that’s when he knew he wanted to study leeches and their medicinal purposes to help treat people that would lead to healing.
We Make the World Go Round
There is a driving force in each one of us, whether discovered as a child or as an adult. It leads us to play our part in making the world a better place with limitless ideas that are one of a kind. Being different and unique is a gift that helps make the world go round. Whatever the profession, skill, or ability-each of us impacts the world’s operation by our diversity. It’s the legacy that we leave for the next generation to be inspired.
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