A few years ago, I was engaged in a conversation with my ex-boss when he remarked about my job position in the hotel. He said very casually, “You’re the electrician.” I was caught by surprise. Umm, I’m a pianist, or at the very least a musician. Not an electrician. My ex-boss didn’t elaborate. I didn’t quiz him about it. So we left it at that. Now I know what he meant.
Everybody takes electricity for granted, especially in an establishment like a hotel. Everybody takes it for granted, that is, until something happens and the juice runs out. No problem, the staff say. “Let’s call the electrician.” The guy comes along, ascertains the problem to be one of the circuits in the main electricity panel boxes, fixes it, and…we have power, folks. If the guy isn’t there or available for some reason, then we have a problem. But until such a situation happens the electrician pretty much isn’t in anybody’s thoughts.
I guess what can be gleaned from this is that we’re all important, in one way or another. We all have a role to play on this Earth, no matter how small we think it might be. For a long time I thought of myself as just a pianist. Another guy may think of himself as only a janitor. A clerk. A paper boy. A ______ (fill in the blank) We’re all interconnected, in one way or another. I might just be a pianist, but I like to think that I have given pleasure and comfort to people who listen to my music—I can recall numerous occasions when friends and even strangers have come up to me and said they appreciated my music.
There’s this guy who looks after the restrooms in the hotel. He’s quiet, looks foreign and probably doesn’t know much English, but each time we meet we exchange a smile and a hello. And with that, two people connect albeit for a brief moment. I guess no matter how bad his day has been he still acts in a cordial manner towards me. And you know what—I respond likewise. I feel good, and I’m sure he does too.
If we can treat people nicely in a simple way such as this, we can treat our lives in the same manner. Of course we have our up days and our down days, but believe me, you attract what you feel and say. If you wake up and tell yourself, “This is going to be a shitty day,” guess what—it’s probably going to be exactly that. If you think that this is just spiritual, new age rubbish, think again. This is fact. It’s actually the law of attraction. You attract what you think.
Norman Vincent Peale has one of the best quotes about this: “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Of course it might not change immediately; time has no hold on the universe and whatever is going to happen in our lives will happen in its own course. However, we have to set the stage for it. So the question is—how do you see your world? How do you paint it? Choose your colors wisely. Paint the world in dull tones of gray and black, and that’s what you’ll receive. Paint it in brighter colors and that’s what you’ll get too. The choice is yours, and yours alone. Choose wisely.
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