FEELING IMPORTANT
Some
time when you’re feeling important
Some
time when your ego’s in bloom
Some
time when you take it for granted
You’re
the best qualified man in the room
Some
time when you feel you are going to
leave
an unfillable hole
Just
follow this simple instruction
And
see how it humbles your soul
Take
a bucket and fill it with water
Put
your hands in it up to your wrists
Pull
them out………and the hole that remains
Is
the measure of how much you’ll be missed!
You
may splash all you please when you enter
You
may stir up the water galore
But
stop, and you’ll find in a minute
That
it looks just the same as before
The
moral of this is quite simple
Do
just the best that you can
Be
proud of yourself but remember:
There is no indispensable man.
Walter
Harrison Labour MP mid 70’s pinned this poem up for his colleagues in
Westminster written by Saxon White Kessinger in 1959 addressed
