I really enjoyed this one, Steve, and thanks, as always, for sharing! Sandy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances Vitulla" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 3:01 PM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: The Most Difficult Instrument To Play
> > 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. > >> > -- > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit > www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
