Great mind, big heart
“I hear you,” Terry
said. “I will try not to let small minds
bring me down. But you gotta admit Ken,
there’s no shortage of them.”
I made him take out his
cell phone and tell me all the things it could do. “Building a phone like that took a lot of
really smart, creative, dedicated people with great minds,” I said. “There’s no
shortage of them either. Most of them
you’ll never hear about, but they’re out there.”
As we talked about the
evolution of the phone, I discovered Terry and I shared a love for
history. I steered the conversation to
famous philanthropists, pointing out that many people doubted their sincerity
and motives, just as some of his peers doubted his.
“Not all charitable
people are famous,” I added. “It’s like the great minds, you’ll never hear
about more than a tiny fraction of all the truly kind people, the ones with the
really big hearts.”
Today I will be grateful for great minds, and big hearts.
Life on Life’s Terms II © 2015 by Ken Montrose
(Just a reminder: LOLT II is
a work of fiction. Any resemblance to
anyone you might know is purely coincidental.)
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