Learning Everyday

Working with kids, I learn alot...
Yesterday this little boy came to me in tears
Barely able to speak as I squatted down I asked him what was wrong
Tryin to understand what he was trying to say through his tears
He told me he couldnt find his card...
A simple little card the kids had received at an assembly earlier that day
I reassured him that his life would not end and that after snack we would come back and look for it.

No more then 2 mins later he had stopped crying and forgotten all about the "importance" of this card
And after snck he had completley forgotten about it.


When I saw him crying and found out what he was crying about
I thought he was crying over nothing...
But at the time to him it was the end of the world that card meant eveything to him

I sat back and thought I wonder if this is how i seem to others
When I cry is it worth my tears or am I getting all worked up over nothing????
When I am older will i look back and say how little these things were and how worried I was about all the wrong things
It is easy for us to see when someone else is cryin over nothing and we tell them "You'll get through this" "It's going to get better"
But when we are going through things it is hard to see how small it really is and that tomarrow will come and time Waits for NO man
Instead of crying over our "lost cards"we should remember that there is always that person willing to help you come back and find it "after snack"
and we don't have to look on our own

It's not wrong to get lost
It's wrong when you don't ask for directions!