Today I woke up thinking about the millions of people in the world that woke up hours before me. Pondering still, I thought, "Gosh these people have probably gotten more work done in the past hour then I have done this entire week." Dragging my head off of the pillow I sorted through the great capabilities that I have obtained. The term "average" comes to mind, but thoughts were kindly disturbed from their pessimistic direction to a more optimisitic.

I’ve been working with paraplegics for the past week at a small facility. There is a mix of patient’s running from simple spastic paraplegics to spastic cerebral palsy clients. They can barely speak and most are on tube feeding. To the ordinary person they may seem small and insignificant. To a scholar they may seem unintelligent. They are below the average.

After working there for less than a week one soon learns that the object of the job is to make the client happy.  Love is the key factor. Sure clean their bed pans, bathe them, feed them, but most of all…..love them. It is interesting how an act of service, so simple as making a client, who can’t speak except to raise his hands when he is happy and lower them when he is sad, generate feelings in ones self that have long been ignored. It can bring a sense of purpose into ones life. Spirituality errupts like a volcano from the ground once hidden for so long but now bursting to the surface. Sadness from the past, and happiness from the present. They have changed my world, whether they know it or not.

They may seem insignificant. They have no great stories to tell their grandchildren. There are no monuments dedicated to them, nor vaccines discovered by them. They are just average people, fighting to live in a world that doesn’t always accept them. It hits a chord with me because it sounds so familiar. These people who are both unaccepted, insignificant and well…average have touched me. Lesson can be learned that one doesn’t have to be a celebrity or the president of the United States of America to make a difference. Everyday we have a chance to make a difference. Everyday we can have a new purpose in mind. Whether we know it or not we are making a legacy. So cheers to being mediocre and for that….I’m going back to bed.