Hello Steve, I like this one thanks for sharing. Original message: > The Most Difficult Instrument To Play > Do you know what is the hardest instrument in the orchestra to play? > The hardest instrument to play is second fiddle. While all the rest of > the instruments have their own sections, the violins are divided into > two parts - "first" and "second" violins. > First violins are often the stars of the show. They get the melody > lines. They get to show off. They sit next to the audience. > Back behind, where they are hard to see, are the second violins. They > play a supporting role. They play harmony to the first violins. > Theirs is a service role. Their job is to round out the sound of the > other instruments. > They serve the orchestra. They do what is not glamorous so that the > whole will be beautiful. Without the second violins, the orchestra > would sound incomplete. > You know what the hardest role to play in life is? Second fiddle. To > play second fiddle is to play a supporting role for someone else. And > it is sometimes a service role; doing what is not glamorous, usually > behind the scenes, so that the whole can be more beautiful. > The late Leo Buscaglia, that effervescent educator, speaker, author, > and lover of life, used to tell his university students that there is a > world out there dying to be loved! He challenged his students to love > and often told them that serving others is the way they can find such > things as happiness and joy. > He sometimes told about Joel. Leo got Joel hooked on serving. He took > him to a nursing home and said, "You see that woman sitting over there? > I want you to go and introduce yourself to her." > Joel was not looking forward to his nursing home visit. But he > nevertheless went to the stranger and introduced himself. She looked at > him skeptically and asked, "Are you one of my relatives?" > Joel answered, "No, I'm not." > And she said, "Good. I hate my relatives. Sit down, son, and talk to > me." He did and they talked. > He went back the next week. And the next. They developed a close > friendship and Joel soon looked forward to his visits. He learned > something about the joy of serving. > About working behind the scenes. > About playing second fiddle. > And he made one woman's world a little more beautiful.
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