When you grow up being the youngest of seven kids, you learn to get a good, strong grip on the mashed potatoes as they go by at the dinner table. My hands were the smallest, and my reach was the shortest, so often I had to settle for Brussels sprouts instead of spuds. Competition was fierce. As I became older, I started to think that it would have been pretty cool to have had a younger brother or sister to boss around, or teach baseball to, or read to, or, well, you get the point.
In my childhood years, my brothers and sisters had become role models for me in many different ways, teaching me things like: how to read, how to write sports stories and short stories, how to throw a curve ball, how to fall off of a bike the right way, how to make tuna salad, how to draw a face out of almost any word or number, and on and on). The thing is, though, they weren’t really trying to become role models for me, it just kind of happened; they were sort of “accidental” role models. My brothers and sisters just kind of grew into their roles of teachers for me. Maybe that is why they meant so much to me then, and now.
So, the question is: Do you consider yourself a role model for anyone? Is there some kid somewhere that actually kind of depends on you for even the smallest of things? Things like showing them how to act in a certain situation, or how to dance, or how to do a math problem, or how to sing a song, or how to write their name, or how to brush their teeth, or how to make chocolate milk, or…? Think about it.
You may be way more important to the world around you than you believe yourself to be.
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