Feeling Indispensable?

One of the unfortunate consequences of chronic pain is having to give up employment.

The tendency for many people is to immerse themselves in community affairs and voluntary work.

Which is highly commendable but sometimes you can take on too much and then things start getting out of control, people seeing how willing you are make more demands on your time often to such an extent that your health starts to suffer.

If this is happening to you, take a step back and review your commitments then read the following poem, its so true and learning to say no can pay dividends in improved health.

Some time when you are feeling important,
Some time when your ego’s in bloom,
Some time when you take it for granted,
You’re the best qualified man in the room,
Some time when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow the following instructions,
And see how it humbles your soul.

Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hands in it up to your wrists,
Pull them out – and the hole that remains
Is the measure of how much you will be missed.

You may splash all you please when you enter,
You may stir up the waters galore,
But ‘STOP’ – and you’ll find in a minute,
That it looks just the same as before.

The moral of this is quite simple,
Be proud of yourself, but remember –
“There is no indispensable man!!”
Or woman!
Anon