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This post has nothing to do with SEO, web development, or small businesses. If you are a small business, get a web site. Now, back to what I want to say.
I was talking with a friend the other day. They had had some stories to tell about their childhood and growing up, but then, we all do. They told me that they had a light bulb moment, an epiphany. (WARNING – religious content ahead. Avert your eyes now. NSFA – Not Safe For Atheists.)
They had been thinking about a question that I had asked them a week or so before. I asked them “If God loves you, why did he give you the parents that he did?” This is like asking how God can be good when he allows children to starve. This is followed by long debates and much drinking of beer. I think I’ve sorted out the answer, philosophically, in my head, but when it comes down to me and my childhood and my parents, that feels a little different than a philosophical argument.
My friend told me that it popped into their head that God didn’t give her parents to her. God gave her to her parents. She was the gift, not her parents.
She felt that her parents would have been worse off in their lives if God hadn’t given her to them. This hit me. This is a new way of looking at things.
It’s not about me and how I feel about the world. It’s about how I can impact the world and make it better place. I have to let go of anger and fear and all those selfish emotions and go out and just do good things because that’s what I do. I want to be angry. I want to feel the pain. I want to be the victim. I want to hang on to the bitterness.
I need to open my hands and let all of that float away into the air.
I am here to make things better. Maybe that does apply to building web sites for small businesses. Maybe that does apply to how I treat clients. Maybe that will impact how much I get paid. I don’t know.
But, I think I have a better handle on why I’m here and what I need to accomplish. I need to be that help, that benefit, that nice guy, that helping hand, the guy you can trust. I need to change the world, no matter what the world has done to me or will do to me. I need to do the right thing.
Why are you here?