Some days are good. The ones that you never expect anything from for instance. The ones when someone says something that makes you think about what it is you're doing and ,perhaps more importantly, why you do it. I suppose the thing is, that you reach a point when you don't think about it so much any more.Today was just such a day.
When you work with people whose lives are a collection of unhappy events rather than the smooth expected run of the made up world we think we live in , you can start to lose sight of what it is that's really important or even what's going on. Sometimes, you get a reminder of the effect you can have on others and how they start to look at themselves when given the perspective of one who can perhaps see the person they could be if they'd give themselves half a chance, that's the biggest problem with this game I call a job, people think they have to be one thing when really they just need to be helped towards being what they actually can be, themselves with a bit more confidence and a little more idea of the things that might help them get there.
The small things make big changes.
When someone tells you that you've given them the confidence to do something positive, something that most people would do on an everyday basis without thinking, then you get a sense of what it is you're actually doing for people.
This should never be about numbers or how much money is being made, it should always be about the things it's purported to be about. Journeys, people growing, situations improving and life being a little more sunshine than shit.
There are those out there ,pilgrims in an unholy land, who like myself do it for the people thing. It's hard, sometimes unforgiving and you get to see the underside of this swirling, muddled, fucked up mess we call society.
But it's all worth it for a glimpse of the possible..
