Meaning doesn’t need a big audience. One person who needed you is plenty.
REFLECTION
WHAT THIS MEANS
Significance gets confused with scale, so a thing feels like it only counts if it reaches thousands. Trace what has actually mattered in your own life and it narrows to a handful of people doing specific things at particular moments. One person who needed you and got you is not a reduced version of meaning. It is the normal size of it.
Find somebody this week who needs something ordinary and provide it. A lift, a read of their essay, an hour of company. Then resist the urge to measure the result.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Has one person needed you this week?
MORE IN MEANING & PERSPECTIVE
- You won’t remember the day you picked the habit that shaped your twenties. It’ll look like a normal day.
- The job with the least status often does the most good. Ask anyone who’s been cared for by a nurse’s aide.
- Not everyone is meant to come with you to the next chapter. Thank them for the one they were in.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.