Working the light
As an extro-introvert, I enjoy being around people, but recharge myself through reflection. I’m the one in the kitchen during a party, or the one watching from the sidelines. Unless I’m dancing. Get me on a stage, saying my own words, I do not flounder. I can even be funny. Except in posture clinic. As if I have two personalities. How can it be so Jekyl-Hydian?
A visiting teacher said to us that there will be a number of us who will teach only a couple of years, while others, a lifetime. Perhaps this is an expected and obvious truth. I’d like to think that with opportunity presenting itself, I will fall in the latter. Here at teacher training, I don’t need to scramble to be noticed. I don’t need to be the loudest voice in the room, the best at posture or resort to self deprecation to receive praise. But I soldier on. There should be equal praise for the tenacious, not for just the shiny.
What I do best, is listen. And if I can be there for you, so be it. Don’t worry, while you’re talking, I’m putting the pieces together, creating a great jigsaw puzzle of life, marveling in the intentional and the coincidental. The world is always smaller than it is.
At the same time I build you up, give you a new platform to stand on. And turn you out ready to face the day. The divine in me honors the divine in you. That light that shines combined will create an inferno of possibility. And that I see in you.
Namaste.