Hero’s and victims

# Chapter 295

So what kind of person are you deciding to be where you are in life? Are you the victim? My dad can’t stop talking about how tired he was the night I was born nearly 60 years ago. No talking of my mom who went through all those months of pregnancy and all those hours of delivery and all that trauma afterwards, nope, just how tired he was. Making it about you means you are the victim. Perhaps you are the hero, always smarter and faster and more clever than everyone else in the story? Stronger and wiser and just more, than someone else. You once again are the center of the story. I use these two common, very common postures to explain that we usually get to choose what kind of person we are deciding to be in the world that we live.

But there are many other choices and far better ones. You can choose to serve, to be the ever-present helper in other people’s stories. These people are the Mother Teresas of our lives. We all know one or more and they are most often the real heroes in the stories of our lives. Or you can choose to be the teacher, ever learning and modeling a life of curiosity and understanding as you seek the answers that could change all of our lives. Or you could choose to be the impact person, making things happen for others. This could be personally or corporately or a combination of the two. You can leverage relationships and opportunities and ideas for the great good of all, you can let your contribution be a weight that swings the momentum in ways that make things better for those you aim to impact. And 100 more . . . all better than victims and heroes.