Good Morning,
I have become a huge fan of new social networking sites, like Linked In and Facebook. These are the two that I use most often. On these sites I have been able to get connected with hundreds of people I have not seen in months, years and even decades.
This past week I was reconnected with a Scoutmaster who I had the pleasure of going to summer camp with several times when I was a teenager. When I added him as a friend I wondered if he would remember me. He did, and we shared some information of what has been going on in our lives over the last three decades. He is retired now, yet still helps with Scouting. I thanked him for taking the time to lead our troop at summer camp all those years ago.
His message holds so much meaning to me that I just had to share it with you:
"You asked more questions than all the others combined. You weren't satisfied with knowing how to use a compass. You wanted to know why it worked a certain way. You had a very inquisitive mind. Often you weren't happy when I didn't have the answer. I guess you were and maybe still are, a TECHNOCRAT. As a management person and someone who has become more involved with mentoring, it is your turn to have all the answers. When you are with the kids, challenge their inquisitive minds as you did with me...
Thank you for your kind words. I always tried to make summer camp a great learning experience not in just the merit badges and rank achievement but in life skills. I tried to teach responsibility and self-reliance and in the middle of all of it, it had to be fun for you as well as me....or it wouldn't have been worth it. Judging from your success, you got the message and are successful in what you do. Now it is your turn to do the same for the generation that follows you. I've done my job."
I have been handed the torch by my Scoutmaster, a person who took interest in helping me learn and grow. Now I look to fulfilling my duty to help the next generations to come.
Can you think back to people who helped you during your earlier years? People who helped you become who you are? People who cared enough to invest time and energy in you?
You are most likely better off because of these people, with the gifts of knowledge and time they gave you. Now's the time to take the torch and pay those kind deeds forward.
Find people you can help. Find organizations which help kids, if you are in Louisville, there is The Stewards Staff and others. Around the country there are groups like Team Focus and Big Brothers and Big Sisters. And like my experience there is the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America.
In the decades to come, there will be those who we invested time an energy into who will be looking back to us, and we can pass them the torch along to them.
It is a beautiful thing.
Enjoy!
I have become a huge fan of new social networking sites, like Linked In and Facebook. These are the two that I use most often. On these sites I have been able to get connected with hundreds of people I have not seen in months, years and even decades.
This past week I was reconnected with a Scoutmaster who I had the pleasure of going to summer camp with several times when I was a teenager. When I added him as a friend I wondered if he would remember me. He did, and we shared some information of what has been going on in our lives over the last three decades. He is retired now, yet still helps with Scouting. I thanked him for taking the time to lead our troop at summer camp all those years ago.
His message holds so much meaning to me that I just had to share it with you:
"You asked more questions than all the others combined. You weren't satisfied with knowing how to use a compass. You wanted to know why it worked a certain way. You had a very inquisitive mind. Often you weren't happy when I didn't have the answer. I guess you were and maybe still are, a TECHNOCRAT. As a management person and someone who has become more involved with mentoring, it is your turn to have all the answers. When you are with the kids, challenge their inquisitive minds as you did with me...
Thank you for your kind words. I always tried to make summer camp a great learning experience not in just the merit badges and rank achievement but in life skills. I tried to teach responsibility and self-reliance and in the middle of all of it, it had to be fun for you as well as me....or it wouldn't have been worth it. Judging from your success, you got the message and are successful in what you do. Now it is your turn to do the same for the generation that follows you. I've done my job."
I have been handed the torch by my Scoutmaster, a person who took interest in helping me learn and grow. Now I look to fulfilling my duty to help the next generations to come.
Can you think back to people who helped you during your earlier years? People who helped you become who you are? People who cared enough to invest time and energy in you?
You are most likely better off because of these people, with the gifts of knowledge and time they gave you. Now's the time to take the torch and pay those kind deeds forward.
Find people you can help. Find organizations which help kids, if you are in Louisville, there is The Stewards Staff and others. Around the country there are groups like Team Focus and Big Brothers and Big Sisters. And like my experience there is the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America.
In the decades to come, there will be those who we invested time an energy into who will be looking back to us, and we can pass them the torch along to them.
It is a beautiful thing.
Enjoy!
Sanford Berenberg
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