Are you indispensable?

I once read somewhere, “if you want to know how indispensable you are, do the following: -
1. Take a bucket filled to the brim with water
2. Put your hand in it and swish it around.
3. Take out your hand.

The hole that is left behind in the water after you take your hand out is how indispensable you are.”

Truly hard hitting isn’t it?

On a similar theme Charles de Gaulle said, “The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men”.

What a powerful statement! I was completely zapped on reading it. Most of us tend to live through life as though the world wouldn’t go around if not for us. Well, maybe not the whole world, but at least someone whose world we ‘think’ we are. But it is not so. The world goes on. Life goes on. You’re around, that’s great. You walk out, fine. Life goes on.

One should be wary of committing the folly of thinking one is indispensable. If ever that thought even crosses your mind remember, the cemetery is full of indispensable people.