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Sometime when you're feeling important Sometime when your ego's in bloom Sometime when you take it for granted You're the best qualified in the room Sometime when you feel that your going Would leave an unfillable hole Just follow these simple instructions And see how they humble your soul Take a bucket and fill it with water Put your hand in it, up to the wrist Pull it out and the hole that's remaining Is a measure of how you'll be missed You can splash all you want when you enter You can stir up the water galore But stop and you find that in no time It looks quite the same as before The moral of this quaint example Is to just do the best you can Be proud of yourself but remember There is no indispensable man ©The Bible Friend
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Dec 23, 2016
Dec 23, 2016 at 1:35 AM UTC
No Indispensable Person
Sometime when you're feeling important Sometime when your ego's in bloom Sometime when you take it for granted You're the best qualified in the room Sometime when you feel that your going Would leave an unfillable hole Just follow these simple instructions And see how they humble your soul Take a bucket and fill it with water Put your hand in it, up to the wrist Pull it out and the hole that's remaining Is a measure of how you'll be missed You can splash all you want when you enter You can stir up the water galore But stop and you find that in no time It looks quite the same as before The moral of this quaint example Is to just do the best you can Be proud of yourself but remember There is no indispensable man ©The Bible Friend
Here's a lovely humbling poem I'd like to share with you - 771, Taken from the Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations, 1979, Signs of the Times by Paul Lee Tan
#person#pride#humility
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Dec 23, 2016
Dec 23, 2016 at 1:35 AM UTC
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