Friday, 21 December 2012

Do what you good at.

Petikan dari novel "The Chestnut Tree" tulisan Charlotte Bingham.

... 
'I am pretty useless, I'm afraid.'
'Nonsense,' the women behind the desk told her, and since she was probably about the same age as Maude, Maude was prepared to believe her.
'That is the whole point of the Women's Voluntary Service. We turn no one away, because we know that there is always something that woman is good at. Always something useful she can do. To give you an example, there's an old lady near here, near Bexham, who walks six miles three times a week - in her seventies she is too - just to come here and clean the offices. She makes them look like a new pin, and do you know something? She is twice the person since she started doing her bit, and why? Because she know she is doing her bit ...

... 'Do you know that I admire her cleaning as much as I admire Churchill's speeches?And why? 
Because both of them doing what they're good at. ...'

p/s: Melakukan sesuatu yang kita minati tidak bermaksud kita mampu lakukan yang sempurna. Kerana    sempurna itu subjektif. Namun kesempurnaan itu mampu hadir melalui keikhlasan.