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Coming up over the next few weeks are: Teacher Appreciation Week May 5 - 9, Nurse Appreciation Day May 10, Mother's Day May 11 ...and here is a true story I think you will find interesting:
Unthanked People
When William Stidger taught at Boston
University, he once reflected upon the great number of
un-thanked people in his life. Those who had helped nurture
him, inspire him or who cared enough about him to leave a
lasting impression.
One was a schoolteacher he'd not heard
of in many years. But he remembered that she had gone out of
her way to put a love of verse in him, and Will had loved
poetry all his life. He wrote a letter of thanks to
her.
The reply he received, written in the
feeble scrawl of the aged, began, "My dear Willie." He was
delighted. Now over 50, bald and a professor, he didn't think
there was a person left in the world who would call him
"Willie."
Here is that letter:
My dear Willie,
I cannot tell
you how much your note meant to me. I am in my eighties,
living alone in a small room, cooking my own meals, lonely
and, like the last leaf of autumn, lingering behind. You will
be interested to know that I taught school for 50 years and
yours is the first note of appreciation I ever received. It
came on a blue-cold morning and it cheered me as nothing has
in many years.
Not prone to cry easily,
Will wept over that note. She was one of the great un-thanked
people from Will's past. You know them. We all do.
The teacher who
made a difference. That coach we'll never forget. The music
instructor or Sunday school worker who helped us to believe in
ourselves. That scout leader who cared.
We all remember people who shaped our
lives in various ways. People whose influence changed us. Will
Stidger found a way to show his appreciation -- he wrote them
letters.
Who are some of the un-thanked people
from your past? It may not be too late to say,
"Thanks."
This article is written by Steve
Goodier in One Minute Can Change A Life https://shop.lifesupportsystem.com/category.sc?categoryId=2
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