Be Indispenseable (Way Off Topic)

Just leafing through the archive on Guy Kawasaki's blog and I came across this post:

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/04/a_poem_for_all_.html

Key excerpt from the poem Guy cites:

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 will be missed.

This is a well known analogy and the point of Guy's post is that everyone is dispensable/replaceable and therefore we should maintain Humility. While I think Humility is a primary virtue, as do the many commenters on Guy's blog, this poem could not be more out of synch with the way human beings really operate.

Think for a moment of all of the people that you have learned from in your life.

If you are anything like me there is a long list of family, friends, teachers, professors, colleagues, bosses, musicians, authors, bloggers, mentors, etc, who have contributed to your life in significant ways. Are they dispensable? Would their disappearance from your life leave no impact?  If they had never been a part of your life, would you be a different person?

Why write or cite a poem that diminishes the very real contributions we all make, and/or have the potential to make, to each other?

Was Robert Kennedy dispensable/replaceable? or Barry Goldwater (included for political balance)? or John Lennon? or Bob Marley? or Gandhi? Have they been missed? I would argue that they (and the contributions they made to shaping the world) have been missed to a profound extent.

The water in the bucket analogy is blind to the profound impact human beings can have on one  another. Whether they are family or friends or artists - the people around you help you and guide your views in significant ways every day. To say they would not be missed is just flat out wrong.

Each of us plays the role of  a family member, friend, colleague, teacher, parent, mentor, etc. for the people that surround us.  In that context, Humility is not an end in and of itself. Humility is only a virtue in that it allows us to be open and generous enough to have a positive affect on the lives of those around us...and so, in being humble, we can make ourselves truly indispensable. Seems like a better use of poem writing effort would be to create images and analogies that elevate the impact we have on each other, not diminish it.

Now back to regularly scheduled programming....

Comments

[Pat Patterson]

I guess you can look at the hand/bucket of water analogy another way. Look at the level of the water in the bucket: it's gone down. So, yes, others rush in to take your place, but the environment is that little bit poorer for your absence...

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