COULD THIS BE YOU?

Sometimes when you’re feeling important,

Sometimes when your ego’s in bloom,

Sometimes when you take it for granted,

You’re the best qualified in the room;

Sometimes when you feel that your going,

Would 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 it out and the hole that remains,

Is a measure of how 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 is this is quite simple;

Do just the best you can,

Be proud of yourself, but remember

THERE IS NO INDISPENSABLE MAN!

Author Unknown

—Taken from THE OBSERVER, Vol. 9, No. 41, 10/26/69,