Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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By Michael Jackson
Man in the Mirror
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I give blood every six weeks and I feel good about myself for doing it. My blood type is a metaphor for how I live my life. I am a universal donor. Everyone can use my blood. My very corpuscles are universally acceptable. So that’s me… always giving. Never thinking of self.
Today, as I walked in, there was a woman in line ahead of me who was crippled. She can drive and drove there, but she needs two canes to walk. She is basically S shaped because of her disability. Her disposition is very pleasant but you can tell that moving about is a struggle for her. And yet there she is giving blood. Maybe she only does it for the free Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies that you get afterwards like I do. *side note* I will do anything for Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies. Make me an offer…*/side note*
Don’t you hate it when that happens? Meeting people that are better than you? I wish it didn’t happen so often, but there it is… The Sniper’s current job was vacated by a woman who had done the job for many years and then retired. She spent her whole career doing her job the best she (or just about anyone else) could do. She would go way out of her way and way above and beyond in order to assist the people she would meet as a Social Worker. She made the world a better place with her good work. And she did all that by working for The Government for a modest wage and adequate benefits. She shows back up to the office all the time to discuss cases and give advice, but also to hear about the progress on the cases she had. She truly cared and cares for those in need.
I’m thinking about these two humans today as that song pours through my head that has been on a continuous loop since last Thursday. I think at some point in her life, she wanted to “make the world a better place” and so she “looked at [her]self and made that change”.I think that quitting my job right now and heading off to Africa or something might do more harm than good, but I think I can stop looking elsewhere for making the world a better place.
I’m gonna get it right while I’ve got the time ‘cause when I close my heart, then I close my mind.
I’m not going to start by fixing all of your problems or by noticing pointing out all of “their” flaws. I’m starting with the man in the mirror.
Love y’all!
AU~out
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Comments (9)
you're a wise one
good for you. my husband's addicted to those nutter butter cookies too! he's like a little kid when he sees them.
That's got to be one of MJ's best songs.
May you always have a gospel choir singing back up as you go around doing good ; )
What a lovely, encouraging post. Thank you!
Good post.
I wanted to give blood in high school, but I didn't weigh enough. A decade later, when I did, I found myself too squeamish to go. I tried to talk myself into it for years, and finally succeeded at the age of 35. By then it was a major fear thing, but I tried my best. It was a bit of a fiasco and I talked to a friend who is a doctor about it a few days later. She said it was most likely all in my head. Still, I'm not sure I could go unless a loved one was in need. Selfish, eh? I get my blood drawn a lot for our fertility treatments, and it's a struggle each time. My husband has no problems with giving blood, he's a universal donor as well, but he's not allowed. His military deployments took him to places that are known for causing contaminated blood. So he can't give blood for many, many years. Thank you for picking up the slack for us. This is a hugely important thing to do.
You and me both,and a good song for today!
That's as good a place to start as any, and it's the one thing that we can truly control!
Great post.
I've still only given blood a couple of times even though I have this rare blood type that they say they really need because the last 2 times I tried a few years ago I swooned and they said they couldn't use the amount they had collected before that anyway. :(