Some time when you’re feeling important.
Sometime when your ego’s in bloom.
Sometime when you take it for granted
you’re the best qualified man in the room.
Sometime when you think that your leaving
will leave an unfillable hole.
Just follow these simple instructions
and see how they humble your soul.
Take a bucket and fill it with water.
Put your hands in it, up to your wrists.
Take them out and the hole that remains
Is a measure of how you’ll be missed.
You may stir all you like as you enter.
You may splash up the water galore.
But stop! And you’ll find in a minute
it looks just the same as before.
The moral of this is quite simple.
You must do the best that you can.
Be proud of yourself but remember,
there is no ‘Indispensible Man.’
O’dark-30 in 73/74 I had reason to visit the dump at Scampton and found the above on the entry picket-post wall, I’ve carried it with me through thick and thin ever since. Been wanting to share it with somebody for a while and this thread seems as good a place to do it as anywhere.
Rgds