Possibly the Most important thing you’ll read this Year…
The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip.
You don’t have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them. Just read it straight through, and you’ll get the point.
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade’s worth of World Series winners.
How did you do?
The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields.
But the applause dies.
Awards tarnish.
Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.
Here’s another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
Easier?
The lesson:
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money … or the most awards. They simply are the ones who care the most.
Source: Weird and Amazing Stuff
I had a small surgical procedure yesterday and am resting up for a few days so this is taken from my collected nuggets of wisdom. It is, obviously, American but the lesson is the same wherever you live.
utesmile
March 8, 2024 at 11:45 am
Wishing you well, dear Sally!
mybeautfulthings
March 8, 2024 at 9:55 pm
Thank you very much. I’m getting there. 🙂
Judith
March 7, 2024 at 7:31 am
Hi Sally, plenty of rest, and let the lovely Mr S look after you. Take care Love,Judith xx
mybeautfulthings
March 7, 2024 at 10:14 pm
Thank you so much. I am resting and feeling better. It was a shock really as so unexpected. You take care too, Love, Sally
xx
nrhatch
March 7, 2024 at 3:08 am
Rest up, Sally. I am sure that YOU are on lots of friends’ lists!
mybeautfulthings
March 7, 2024 at 10:15 pm
I hope so! I have had a very restful day and am feeling much better. 🙂
Ark
March 6, 2024 at 7:42 pm
You are obviously chipper enough to blog, so I am thinking nothing too serious?
From across the miles, wishing you a speedy recovery to full health.
Doug ( Ark)
😊
mybeautfulthings
March 6, 2024 at 8:37 pm
Thanks, Doug, best wishes happily accepted. Just a biopsy on a sun spot which may need further work depending on what’s found. Lovely of you to send across the miles, much appreciated. 🙂
Ark
March 6, 2024 at 9:31 pm
I remember quite a number of my school teachers from junior school right through, especially people like Mister Powell, junior school, Anita Gomez my high school English teacher, Dunley, science, Wray, Art. Turner, History.
I’ve temporarily gone blank over the name of my French teacher but he dId introduce us to baguettes and Edith Piaff!
Made me smile thinking of them and wondering what became of them.
mybeautfulthings
March 7, 2024 at 10:18 pm
How lovely that you remember so many teachers who affected your life. It’s always good to find out about people. I have made contact with pupils via Facebook which has been really pleasing. I like your French teacher’s priorities! 🙂
Ark
March 7, 2024 at 10:31 pm
I was once elected as the fifth form student representative! It was overseen by our year tutor, and we met in his office once a week. He, like my junior school teacher was also called Powell.
He wrote a pretty decent testimonial for me. He also gave me a weeks detention for bunking school to go see the Stones in Manchester!
My one claim to fame as fifth form representative was organizing for the school to provide soft toilet paper for the girls loos.
I became a legend in my own lunchtime!
😂
mybeautfulthings
March 8, 2024 at 9:58 pm
Love those stories and can’t praise you enough for your work to get the soft loo paper for the girls!
To see the Stones! Well worth bunking off for and getting detention – a memory to treasure indeed. 🙂
Ark
March 8, 2024 at 10:11 pm
It is a treasured memory. When I was called into the office to receive my “punishment”, after the not so severe telling off Mr Powell closed his class registrar, looked and me, smiled and asked. “What was the concert like?”
I was taken aback as you can imagine. When I told him it was brilliant, grinning all over my silly face, he smiled again and said he was a bit jealous! As a kid, to have an adult asking about rock music with genuine interest and especially a teacher for goodness sake, was unheard of!
After that I would cheerfully have done detention for a month.
I hadn’t thought about this episode for a long time, but it was great fun to retell it and it made me smile.
Thanks
😊
mybeautfulthings
March 9, 2024 at 10:10 pm
It is a special memory and I love that you’ve shared it with me.
It put me in mind of a difficult teenager when I first moved from Primary teaching to secondary and was actually quite scared of the bigger kids. This lad was argumentative and resentful but became my best pal when he realised that I loved Bruce Springsteen as much as he did! He was so impressed that we had been to Bramall Lane, Sheffield to see The Boss!
Sadly, though I can picture him, I can’t remember the boy’s name but I would love it if all these years later, he could tell a story like yours of a teacher who suddenly became human! 🙂
Ark
March 9, 2024 at 10:38 pm
You could write a post or put up something on Facebook?
You might like this…
When I left the UK I took all my records with me. One of those is a John Mayell record featuring Eric Clapton. It is known as the Beano Album. Clapton is on the cover reading a Beano. I picked it up among a bunch of uninteresting records in a box in a second hand furniture shop for a quid in Chester. I had popped into for a ten minute mooch while I waited to meet a mate.
Anyway, a few years ago, for some reason I felt prompted to post a photo of the album on a Chester Memory group. The LP has the name Tommy Kibble ( spelling?) written in black ballpoint on the record label and I wondered if by chance the former owner saw this would he like to give me a shout?
The day after posting, out the blue, I receive a like and a message from someone called Maureen Kibble telling me that Tommy was her late brother.
She was over the moon even though she was unaware her late brother had this in his collection or how it ended up in a second hand shop.
We have been in contact on and off ever since!