Found People Find People

What would you do if you could do anything in the world?

This is a very open ended question. I could mean this evening, or this weekend, or with your free time or with your career. Sadly, I’m afraid that my answer to this question would be unremarkable. My sister asked me today if I could have any job in the world what would it be. I would write. Not that my books would be life-altering classics. But I would enjoy that more than anything else.  But it made me wonder, what would I do if I could do anything in the world? And as I just said my first reactions were unremarkable.

I found that several of the things that first came to my mind were quite selfish. Some of the ones that even sounded selfless were not. And since they were severely limited by my own benefit they were decidedly un-ambitious. Because if I were honest with myself I would have to admit that there is a big difference between my answers to the questions “what would you like to get if you could get anything” and “what would you do if you could do anything”. Doing is much harder than getting.

So why don’t we work hard to accomplish or achieve the things we would like most to get? Laziness. Selfishness. Pride. Just to name a few. So what do we do about it? I’m trying to figure that out myself. I have a feeling it will require a change of heart. Actively working to care more about others than we do about ourselves. Caring less about what other people think and more about what they need.

And they need to be found. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the following phrase this in the past week: Found people Find people. I want that to be my automatic answer to the question “what would you do if you could do anything in the world”? I want a change of heart that would cause my answer to be that I would invest my time, effort, heart, and soul into finding people. Because I was found. And found people find people.