What we (often) don't see/find
Isn't it amazing, to think that whenever we meet someone, we often never know that that person has had a book published, or is involved with amateur (unpaid) acting, singing or dance work, and so on and so forth?
The office Receptionist or Sales Assistant you come face to face with, the people at the bus stop, shoppers, etc. - there can be more to a person than what meets the eye. As a Receptionist myself, I guess that most visitors to our company will see me as "a face of the company,", a member of staff, someone who they witness doing their work for which they're getting paid, that sort of thing. Unless I tell them, those people will not know that on certain days after work, I have what I call "my extra-curricular activities" - drama, choir, and ballet. Neither will they know of any books I have had published, or of any book-writing projects I might have underway........
It's not until you get talking to someone (whether a complete stranger or a family friend) that you could potentially discover that individual is a (self-published) author, or an actor, dancer,or some other performer of some sort. They could have achieved something big, like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for charity, for instance.
Very often, though, we never find these things out, because those people don't tell us, for whatever reason they have.
The same goes for us too. Let's face it, who on earth is going to be interested in our single, self-published book, or the performances we have done in front of family and friends at a small, local theatre, as non-famous, unpaid, amateur theatre groups? We are not rich and famous, we tell ourselves. Nobody is going to be interested, and anyway, they'll have forgotten us by tomorrow. Actually, we are wrong.
Unless someone you meet is self-centred, obnoxious, and completely disinterested in others, most folk will be interested - that stranger, very often someone you get talking to at the bus stop, for instance, won't mind you talking about your achievements, especially if you take an interest in the person you're talking to. You may not realise, unless you see them with a guitar case, that they're in a band, or that they're an actor with the local amateur Shakespearean company, until you ask them what they do apart from their "day job."
Last of all, we may not realise how inspirational other people find us, or how they secretly wish that they had our talent and patience to see a 'book project' through, or the courage to perform on stage in front of an audience.
What about us? It's worth taking an interest in other people. Apart from the usual questions of "what's your name?", "who do you live with, and where?", and "do you have a job," why not ask what they do in their spare time?
Their answer may surprise, and inspire you.
The office Receptionist or Sales Assistant you come face to face with, the people at the bus stop, shoppers, etc. - there can be more to a person than what meets the eye. As a Receptionist myself, I guess that most visitors to our company will see me as "a face of the company,", a member of staff, someone who they witness doing their work for which they're getting paid, that sort of thing. Unless I tell them, those people will not know that on certain days after work, I have what I call "my extra-curricular activities" - drama, choir, and ballet. Neither will they know of any books I have had published, or of any book-writing projects I might have underway........
It's not until you get talking to someone (whether a complete stranger or a family friend) that you could potentially discover that individual is a (self-published) author, or an actor, dancer,or some other performer of some sort. They could have achieved something big, like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for charity, for instance.
Very often, though, we never find these things out, because those people don't tell us, for whatever reason they have.
The same goes for us too. Let's face it, who on earth is going to be interested in our single, self-published book, or the performances we have done in front of family and friends at a small, local theatre, as non-famous, unpaid, amateur theatre groups? We are not rich and famous, we tell ourselves. Nobody is going to be interested, and anyway, they'll have forgotten us by tomorrow. Actually, we are wrong.
Unless someone you meet is self-centred, obnoxious, and completely disinterested in others, most folk will be interested - that stranger, very often someone you get talking to at the bus stop, for instance, won't mind you talking about your achievements, especially if you take an interest in the person you're talking to. You may not realise, unless you see them with a guitar case, that they're in a band, or that they're an actor with the local amateur Shakespearean company, until you ask them what they do apart from their "day job."
Last of all, we may not realise how inspirational other people find us, or how they secretly wish that they had our talent and patience to see a 'book project' through, or the courage to perform on stage in front of an audience.
What about us? It's worth taking an interest in other people. Apart from the usual questions of "what's your name?", "who do you live with, and where?", and "do you have a job," why not ask what they do in their spare time?
Their answer may surprise, and inspire you.
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