Making The Difference

A singer with a well-known band was wondering if he was really in the right profession. He loved what he was doing, but he wanted something more. He looked around him at the problems in the world, and he yearned to make a difference. Music alone, he thought, would never let him do that.

Then, out of the blue, someone wrote to him – a letter very different from the fan mail he was used to. It started off by saying, "Thank you for saving, at the very least, my sanity - and probably my life, as well."

Its writer had been in an unhappy situation - bullied by her boss at work, and in a difficult relationship at home. She felt so miserable, she said, that one day as she stood waiting to cross the road she seriously thought of stepping out in front of an oncoming truck, and had to force herself to turn away. Shaken at what she'd come so close to doing, she realized something had to change.

She knew the band's music, and on an impulse bought their album. On it were a couple of tracks she hadn't heard before, but immediately loved. She played them... over and over.

They had a powerful effect on her. They made her forget all the things that were going on around her. They filled her with excitement, enjoyment, energy and hope.

"I'd forgotten what it felt like to be happy," she said. "Once the music made me feel that way again, I wanted more of it!"

She played it on her way to work, and on her way back home. She played it every time she was alone. The more she played it, the more she found the feeling of happiness and optimism was lasting even when the music was turned off. She found she had the confidence to change things.

She started a business venture of her own, and left her job. She told her partner that if he didn't treat her better she would leave him. She changed her hairstyle, and she bought new clothes. Her life was transformed beyond all recognition. She had self-respect.

"It was enjoyment of your music that began it," the letter said. "It gave me energy and hope that changed my life – and maybe even saved it. I just want you to know the difference you've made for me."

So – there it was. The man who so much longed to make a difference was making one already, without any conscious effort... just by going where his talent took him.

We're given talents for a reason – and it's not to let them go to waste.

No matter if your talents and ambitions are for music or for teaching, for commerce or for home-making and parenting, or whatever other kind that they might be, you never know how many lives you'll touch for good by using them... or, if you don't, how many people suffer from the lack of what your talents could provide.

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