Sometime when you're feeling important Sometime when you ego's in bloom Sometime when your take it for granted You're the best qualified in the room Sometime when you feel that your going would leave an unfillable hole Just follow this simple instruction and see how it humbles your soul
Take a bucket and fill it with water Put your hand in it, up to your wrist Pull it out and the hole that's remaining is a measure of how you'll be missed You may splash all you please when you enter You can stir up the water galore But stop and you'll find in a minute that it looks quite the same as before The moral in this quaint example Is do the best that you can Be proud of yourself, but remember There's no indispensable man.
I don't know who wrote this I got it from my grandfather over 20 years ago
By Jill from Shavertown, PA
Editor's Note: This is named "Feeling Important" by Saxon White Kessinger. It is also the poem that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor read at her retirement.
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