Just Acceting A Bun

I recently found out that many of us have issue of facing people with a higher authority. A person may feel uneasy or behave differently e.g. not being self comfortably when being with someone who has a higher authority.

People with higher authority are those whom their bosses, customers/clients, celebrities, or someone who are influential in the society…. The uneasiness is most of the time, feeling small and less important or capable in front of these people….

I remember years ago I was crazy about helping up at homes. I sometimes took a nap in the cab right after a tiring flight without anything in my stomach. There are times that I needed to push a few old folks in wheel chairs with a little up hill for activities. Well, bore with the hunger and tiredness to do the work, just to make myself feel useful.

There was once an old lady offered me a bun that her daughter bought for her. Felt pity on the people in the home and I declined the offer. However, The old lady insisted. I could not bear the hunger and took one bun from her, at the same time I could see the sparkle in her eyes and suddenly the wrinkle in her face smoothen with a smile.

From the smile in her face, I suddenly realized I was totally wrong about myself. All this while I thought I should only give as they were ‘less capable’ than me. Therefore, it was not right for me to take anything from them….

By taking a bun from her, I have made her feel that she could contribute too….

Till today, I realized the bigger picture of the lesson that was presented to me though it happened years ago….

We know that everyone of us is here to contribute and help one another. This interdependency was design to make us to be together as ONE among the living things on earth.

Remember all events happen to us are for us to learn and to be more than who we are. Though we may perceive some of us are not capable to contribute and even feel they are doing harm to us.

It is just like…

There are times we watch babies who just learn on how to walk. They have no frustration and doubt about their own abilities. People around them could walk and function in many areas far much better than the babies who just learn to use the strength of their legs to stand and walk….

What do we normally do to them?

Some of us help them to walk by holding them…

Some of us just leave them alone and believe that sooner or later they know…

Either way that we do, we encourage them to stand up and walk by themselves…

Soon, they learn on how to cycle by using the children size bicycle… while we cycle on the adult bicycle…

It is just like…..

Some of us could climb a smaller mountain in days…. And some of us are physically stronger and able to climb prominent mountain within the same number of days….

…. No matter how or in what way, all of us are capable of climbing mountain….

Now, look back the time that I thought the people that I work in the homes were less capable than me, that I should have only give to make all happy…

Think again….

They are still capable by just offering me a bun after noticing my hunger and tiredness…. It is just they climb a smaller mountain….

Yet still a mountain…

Hmmm….

The issue of facing higher authority is seems diminished and disappeared in the air…

All of us are as important…