All the difference in the world
I haven’t posted a Blogger Inspired entry in months. The last time I posted one was in July of last year.
Anyway, I am a subscriber of a blog called Marc and Angel Hack Life. I love this blog so much! Their entry for yesterday is entitled How to Make All the Difference in the World. The entry is about an old woman who scrubs the shells of a couple of turtles to help them swim better. Marc sees the old woman doing this every Sunday when he jogs around the area. He asked the old woman what difference it makes that she helps a couple of turtles when “99% of these turtles don’t have kind people like you to help them clean off their shells.” According to the old woman, “Sweetie, if this little guy could talk, he’d tell you I just made all the difference in the world.”
The entry just made me think of my dad…
My dad loves helping other people. No matter if he doesn’t get anything in return. A simple thank you would suffice. What he wants to see is for our neighbors to rise above their stations in life. Just this past couple of days, he’s been helping a number of jobless men in our little area get legitimate jobs abroad through my aunt (his sister) who has a recruitment agency. Two will be leaving before March ends. Four more will be following suit.
You see, you never know that the difference you make in a person’s life could spell the whole world to him. It can be the start of something big. For that person, you just made all the difference in the world. A difference need not be something grand. It need not be something that can affect a hundred people in one fell swoop. It can be a simple gesture to someone.
Make a difference in your own simple way. I hope I am making a difference in other people’s lives, too.
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February 27th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Hi Sasha! Wow long time no see… it’s funny, I just finished writing a blog about how people can unwittingly make a huge difference in another person’s life… I haven’t published it yet, but I suddenly thought of you because of the song “Everything”…. remember that song… am I remembering correctly…. I remember listening to that song in my car and then visiting your old blog and you had incorporated a line from that song into your new header…. am I remembering right? I think the line was “would you tell me how could it be any better than this”?… I hope you are doing well. God Bless….
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February 27th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Hi Angelo! You remembered! Katuwa naman! Yes, it’s Everything and “would you tell me how could it be any better than this”? is one of my favorite lines in that song. I still remember that comment
I hope you are doing well, too. I am. Gob bless!
March 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Hey Sasha! I knew I was remembering correctly. I had posted that song in that Sunrise#12911 etc post and I suddenly had a flashback
Glad to know you’re doing great!
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March 5th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
@Angelo… I actually spent over an hour at your blog listening to Everything again and again
Love that song!
March 5th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
haha talaga? I left it on last night to help me sleep
Angelo’s last blog post..Another Deep Thought from the New York City Subway
March 5th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
@Angelo… Sobrang gandang kanta talaga! When I get married, yan ang theme song namin… Pero the song is a bit sad pala hehe