Helping Hands

Helping Hands

A mother, wishing to encourage her son’s progress at the piano, bought tickets to a performance by the great Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski. When the evening arrived, they found their seats near the front of the concert hall and eyed the majestic Steinway waiting on the stage. Soon the mother found a friend to talk to, and the boy slipped away.

At eight o’clock, the lights in the auditorium began to dim, the spotlights came on, and only then did they notice the boy — up on the piano bench, innocently picking out “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.” His mother gasped in shock and embarrassment but, before she could retrieve her son, the master himself appeared on the stage and quickly moved to the keyboard.

He whispered gently to the boy, “Don’t quit. Keep playing.” Leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in the bass part. Soon his right arm reached around the other side and improvised a delightful obbligato. Together, the old master and the young novice held the crowd mesmerised with their blended and beautiful music.

In all our lives, we receive helping hands — some we notice, some we don’t. Equally we ourselves have countless opportunities to provide helping hands — sometimes we would like our assistance to be noticed, sometimes we don’t. Little of what we all achieve is without learning from others and without support from others and what we receive we should hand out.

This is such well told story because just as important it is to help others it is vitally important to accept the help of others. This is something we usually tend to forget. We are all placed in this magnificent world to make a powerful and positive difference, there is no way to measure how big or small our helping actions are; all are equal as they serve the glory of being a unique person of 'giving'. If we block others off from helping we are limiting our fellow neighbours from being caring and thoughtful. Cutting help off from people too many times cannot be a good thing as they will forget what their role of being human is. Give people the honour to help and you too will be helping!

May you have a fantastic week! A week full of only awesome and exciting things!

Darren Zwiers

The Quote:

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~Anne Frank